Birth Name: Burton Leon Reynolds
Place of Birth: Lansing, Michigan
Date of Birth: February 11, 1936
Ethnicity: English, with distant Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), Scottish, Dutch
Burt Reynolds is an American actor. He has English, with distant Northern Irish (Scots-Irish), Scottish, and Dutch, ancestry.
Burt is often cited as having some degree of Cherokee Native American ancestry, specifically on his father’s side. This Cherokee Native American ancestry has never been documented/verified.
Burt’s paternal grandparents were John Burton Reynolds II (the son of John Burton Reynolds and Elizabeth Lattimore) and Effie M. Thompson (the daughter of Milo Thompson and Ann E. Wilcox).
Burt’s maternal grandparents were Leon Chauncey Miller (the son of Charles Aldrille Miller and Annette Florilla Bell) and Nina Bell Wheeler (the daughter of George C. Wheeler and Harriette A. Hungerford).
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