Jerry Reed Hubbard (March 20, 1937 – September 1, 2008), known professionally as Jerry Reed, was an American country music singer, innovative guitarist, songwriter, and actor who appeared in ...

Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol' boy actor in car chase movies like "Smokey and the Bandit," has died of complications from emphysema at 71. His longtime booking agent, Carrie Moore-Reed ...

Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol' boy actor in car-chase movies like Smokey and the Bandit, has died of complications from emphysema at 71. His longtime booking agent, Carrie Moore-Reed ...

Author: 10tv.com Published: 2:57 AM EDT September 3, 2008 Updated: 5:19 AM EDT September 8, 2008 Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol' boy actor in car chase movies like Smokey and the Bandit, ...

Jerry Reed Hubbard was born March 20, 1937, in Atlanta, into a family of cotton farmers. He started playing guitar when he was young, and by the time he was a teenager he was performing with the ...

But Jerry Reed was more than an actor in these cornball movies. Originally from Atlanta, Reed moved to Nashville in the early '60s to write songs and work as a session guitarist.

Jerry Reed — songwriter for the likes of Elvis Presley, singer and busy actor in the ’70s and ’80s — died Monday at the age of 71. Best known to movie fans as the truck-driving, hound dog ...

Reed and Kris Kristofferson paved the way for Nashville music personalities to make inroads into films. Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers (TV movies) followed their lead.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol’ boy actor in car-chase movies such as “Smokey and the Bandit,” has died of complications from emphysema at 71.

Arguably the best-known and most-loved trucker movie is “Smokey and the Bandit,” and sharing that limelight is its signature song by Jerry Reed, “Eastbound and Down.” The movie, released ...

Jerry Reed, a singer who became a good ol’ boy actor in car chase movies like “Smokey and the Bandit,” has died of complications from emphysema at 71.

[Jerry Reed, born March 20, 1937, died August 31, 2008.] But the recent death of Jerry Reed, 71, who portrayed truck driver Cledus “The Snowman” Snow in the movie - plus co-wrote and sang the ...