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Jerry reed
The film follows Bo "Bandit" Darville (Reynolds) and Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Reed), two truck-driving bootleggers attempting to illegally transport 400 cases of.
Jerry Reed was an American country singer, guitarist, composer, songwriter and actor who appeared in more than a dozen films.

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Do-Gooder

Origin

Smokey and the Bandit

Occupation

Truck Driver
Racer

Goals

-Deliver Coors Beer to the Southern Classic in Atlanta (succeeded);
-Run to Boston for clam chowder for the Burdettes (unseen; apparently succeeded)
-Deliver a live elephant to the GOP convention in Dallas (failed);
-Prevent Buford T. Justice from delivering a stuffed shark to the Burdettes' seafood restaurant in Austin (failed)

Family

Waynette (ex-wife)
Several children including daughter Kate

Friends / Allies

Bandit Darville
Carrie
Fred (dog)

Enemies

Buford T. Justice

"No.. I am not Hank Snow's brother. No."

^{[~Cledus on the phone to an operator while trying to call his wife in Smokey And The Bandit]}

"You- you're- you're CRAZY! And I'm divorced! And y-- ... ain't half bad, is it?"

^{[~Cledus to Bandit as they start off for Boston at the end of the first movie]}

Cledus "Snowman" Snow was the deuteragonist in the first two movies of the Smokey and the Bandit franchise, and became the main protagonist in Smokey and the Bandit III. He was portrayed by Je

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Smokey and the Bandit

1977 film by Hal Needham

Smokey and the Bandit is a 1977 American action comedyroad film starring Burt Reynolds, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Reed, Pat McCormick, Paul Williams, and Mike Henry. The film marks the directorial debut of stuntman Hal Needham.

The film follows Bo "Bandit" Darville (Reynolds) and Cledus "Snowman" Snow (Reed), two truck-driving bootleggers attempting to illegally transport 400 cases of Coors beer from Texarkana to Atlanta. While the Snowman drives the truck carrying the beer, the Bandit drives blocker, in a 1977 Pontiac Trans Am, to distract law enforcement and keep the attention off the Snowman. During their run, they are pursued by Sheriff Buford T. Justice (Gleason), of Portague County, Texas.^[5]

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 B

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Some folks remember Jerry Reed as a country music recording artist who had some crossover success in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Some folks remember Jerry Reed for his role as a wiry-framed, truck-driving sidekick to Burt Reynolds named Cledus Snow in 1977’s Smokey and the Bandit. Some folks may even remember Jerry Reed as a songwriter first and foremost – one who penned songs recorded by the likes of Porter Wagoner and Brenda Lee. Or they may remember him as the session musician whose complex, syncopated fingerstyle guitar play influenced singer-guitarists like Steve Wariner and Glen Campbell. Whatever or whoever folks remember him as, there’s one element that ties it all together anyway to describe what Reed, ultimately, was: an entertainer.

He proved it early on in life, too. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, and a guitar prodigy by the time he was a child, Reed was first signed to Capitol Records during the mid-’50s while still a teenager, having already paid his dues in his early teens playing shows with Faron Young and Ernest Tubb. Even so, Nashville wasn’t quite ready for his instr