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Former Auburn football star got acting start as world’s premiere Burt Reynolds lookalike

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Roy Tatum, 75, says he almost got the Bo Duke gig in The Dukes of Hazzard. They called him in for three auditions, but eventually went with a much younger, much blonder John Schneider. No hard feelings. He wound up as FBI Agent #3 in the second episode.

He had some pretty big parts over the years (and even starred in 1983’s Don’t Change My World), but save his stint as Bigfoot, most roles were like that — nameless, law enforcement types. Cop #1 in Door to Door (1984) starring Jane Kaczmarek.