Alfie Smart, who usually appeared in movies and TV reveals together with his good friend Burt Reynolds, has died. He reportedly died July 22 of pure causes on the Thomas H. Corey VA Medical Heart in West Palm Seaside, Fla., his longtime fiancée Stephanie Bliss informed the Hollywood Reporter. He was 82.
Smart and Reynolds shared the display in movie and TV, together with a few of Reynolds’ best hits: the 1974 movie “The Longest Yard,” the 1977 movie “Smokey and the Bandit,” and the 1981 movie “The Cannonball Run.” Smart additionally appeared together with his good friend within the CBS sitcom “Night Shade” and ABC’s crime collection “B.L Stryker.”
“His movies had been like an ongoing block get together,” Smart informed the New York Day by day Information after the loss of life of Reynolds in 2018.
“You all the time knew you had been going to have a good time with a Burt Reynolds film,” he added.
Off display, Smart labored as Reynolds’ assistant.
Smart graduated in 1964 from Penn State and joined the U.S. Navy, the place he would produce and host reveals. He later labored as an NBC web page in Los Angeles. He made his performing debut within the 1972 TV film “Name Her Mother.”
His filmography included “Halfway” (1976), “Swashbuckler” (1976), and “Scorching Stuff” (1979). Smart additionally appeared on the short-lived kids’s present “Uncle Croc’s Block” with Lou Ferrigno and Charles Nelson Reilly within the titular position and the ABC collection “The Fall Man” with Lee Majors.
Smart’s final credit score was 15 episodes of the CBBC present “S Membership 7 in Miami.”
After retiring from performing in 2000, he labored as an actual property agent in Juniper, Fla.