Alfie Wise shared the screen with his friend Burt Reynolds on multiple occasions and even worked as his assistant.

Blond bombshell Loni Anderson — who died Aug. 3 from an undisclosed illness two days shy of her 80th birthday — proved that ...

In a May 1988 issue of PEOPLE covering Reynolds’ wedding to Loni Anderson (who died Aug. 3 at age 79), Wise commented on his ...

Everyone in Hollywood had known since the 1970s that Burt Reynolds had a bit of a temper, but that didn’t stop one director ...

WKRP in Cincinnati actress Loni Anderson was married to legendary actor Burt Reynolds for five years. He was her third ...

Alfie Wise, the character actor and longtime friend of Burt Reynolds who appeared in 10 of his films, has died at 82.

At the peak of his career, actor Burt Reynolds purchased a home in the Blue Ridge Mountains across the border from Georgia in Highlands, North Carolina, about a decade after starring in “Deliverance,” ...

Alfie Wise, who worked with Burt Reynolds on “Smokey and the Bandit,” “The Longest Yard” and eight other films, is dead at 82 ...

Years before he became a movie star, Burt Reynolds first showed that he was a true leading man while a cast member on the hit ...

He worked with Reynolds on 1974's The Longest Yard, 1977's Smokey And The Bandit, 1978's Hooper, 1981's The Cannonball ...

Wise played a trooper in the prison-set The Longest Yard (1974), his first onscreen collaboration with Reynolds, and he worked with the movie star in The End (1978), Hooper (1978), Starting Over (1979 ...

Alfie Wise, known for his role as Batman in “The Cannonball Run” and Burt Reynolds’ longtime costar, died at the age of 82 on July 22, 2025.