Burt Reynolds, wisecracking star of ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ and ‘Deliverance,’ dies at 82

In the mid-1960s, Burt Reynolds had begun landing starring roles in films such as “Navajo Joe,” “100 Rifles,” “Sam Whiskey,” “Shark!,” “Impasse” and “Skullduggery.” They generally were the kind of movies that he joked “they show in prisons and airplanes because nobody can leave.”

That self-deprecating…