 Jackie Gleason (I) (qv) reportedly modeled his character, Sheriff  Buford T. Justice, after Burt Reynolds (I) (qv) description of  his father, a Georgia sheriff. Among the character traits that came  from this was the use of "sum bit" instead of "son of a bitch".  Gleason later stated that one of his greatest joys was learning that  people in the Deep South had picked up using "sum bit" from the  film.