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2 Cast. 3 Production. ... Universal Pictures: Release date. August 15, 1980 ... Smokey and the Bandit II is a 1980 American action comedy film directed by Hal Needham
Henry is probably best known to movie audiences for playing Jackie Gleason's character's son Junior in the Smokey and the Bandit comedies starring Burt Reynolds and Sally Field. [ 3 ] Henry portrayed a corrupt prison guard in The Longest Yard (1974).
Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983) is an American action comedy film starring Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Paul Williams, Pat McCormick, Mike Henry and Colleen Camp. The plot of the film revolves around Sheriff Buford T. Justice ("Smokey"), with the presence of the Bandit merely being suggested through him being impersonated by Cledus ("Snowman ...
This role was the cantankerous and cursing Texas sheriff Buford T. Justice in the films Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) and Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983). He co-starred with Burt Reynolds as the Bandit, Sally Field as Carrie (the Bandit's love interest), and Jerry Reed as Cledus "Snowman" Snow, the Bandit's ...
[94] [95] The team's name was inspired by the Smokey and the Bandit trilogy and Skoal Bandit, a primary sponsor for the team as a result of also sponsoring Reynolds' motor racing team. [96] Reynolds co-owned a NASCAR Winston Cup Series team, Mach 1 Racing, with Hal Needham, which ran the No. 33 Skoal Bandit car with driver Harry Gant. [97]
According to Williams, it was Reynolds's idea to cast the height-mismatched duo as the father and son who dispatch the Bandit to snag some celebratory cases of Coors Beer while avoiding the long ...
Smokey and the Bandit was a box office success, grossing $127 million against a $4.3 million budget, becoming the second-highest-grossing domestic film of 1977 in the United States. [6] The film became the first installment of the Smokey and the Bandit trilogy as the start in the Smokey and the Bandit franchise.
Bandit is a 1994 American television film series based on the Smokey and the Bandit franchise.All four episodes – Bandit Goes Country, Bandit Bandit, Beauty and the Bandit and Bandit's Silver Angel – were produced for Universal Television's Action Pack programming block from original Smokey and the Bandit director/writer Hal Needham.