Charles Nelson Reilly, ... Reilly’s close friend Burt Reynolds said in a 1991 Times article that he thought Reilly’s reputation as the perpetual jester had worked against him in Hollywood.

And longtime friend Burt Reynolds — “Life of Reilly” has no shortage of name dropping — supplied Reilly with places both to perform and to teach. ... Charles Nelson Reilly lives once more.

Burt Reynolds and I have been very close friends, he has been my best friend for 46 years , and I think I can drop his name now.” Mr. Reilly looked at a woman in the front row, who was studying ...

Though best remembered for his irreverent 1970s and '80s TV game show appearances, funnyman Charles Nelson Reilly (who died of pneumonia last May) also had a colorful family and a lengthy, award ...

And the hilarious exasperation and off-color innuendos of Charles Nelson Reilly, who died last Friday at age 76 after a long illness, ... Burt Reynolds was a “god”; ...

Reilly’s play began its run several years ago in Boca Raton, not far from Jupiter, Fla., where his dear friend Burt Reynolds built him a home. At first, there were modest expectations — a few ...

When it opened this summer in San Francisco, critics complained that at three hours, Charles Nelson Reilly's solo show was too long. It is now in New York, at the Irish Rep, and guess what? It's ...

Charles Nelson Reilly is full of it. In his generously stuffed solo show "Save It for the Stage: The Life of Reilly," which opened Saturday to an adoring packed house at the New Conservatory ...

Dom DeLuise conned Don Bluth into letting him work with pal Burt Reynolds on animated film All Dogs Go ... There, too, is Charles Nelson Reilly, Reynolds’ then-wife Loni Anderson, Vic Tayback ...

Burt asked every star who performed at the Burt Reynolds Dinner Theatre to teach a class at BRITT - everyone from Martin Sheen and Carol Burnett to Dom Deluise and Charles Nelson Reilly. Charles ...

Eddie Driscoll, Actor on ‘The Last Ship,’ Dies at 60. Driscoll studied acting in Florida with Burt Reynolds, who then hired him for work in movies and TV shows.