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Leadbelly

6.4 126 mins Drama   1976
David Paradine Productions   Brownstone Productions   Zeeuwse Maatschappij N.V.  
Director(s): Gordon Parks

Release Date: 28 Fri, May 1976

The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.

Casts of Leadbelly

Roger E. Mosley

as Huddie Ledbetter

James Brodhead

as John Lomax

John McDonald

as Tom Pruitt

Leonard Wrentz

as Guard

Ernie Hudson

as Archie

Dana Manno

as Margaret Judd

William Wintersole

as Sheriff Gibbons

Paul Benjamin

as Wes Ledbetter

Lynn Hamilton

as Sally Ledbetter

Carole Lamond

as Laura May

Melba Englander

as Evaline

Pamela Singleton

as Fat Bessie

Rozaa Jean

as Sugar Tit

Nat Williams

as Albert

Madge Sinclair

as Miss Eula

George Williams

as Shorty

Timothy Pickard

as Gray Man

Rhetta Greene

as Lethe

Art Evans

as Blind Lemon Jefferson

William Creamer

as Conductor

Dearl Croft

as Frank

John C. Johnson

as Will

Bill Woodard

as Alex

Robert C. Farrow

as Blacksmith

Albert Hall

as Dicklicker

Peter Harrell

as Ally George

B.T. Henderson

as Boss #1

Denny Arnold

as Boss #2

James Taylor

as Dog Boy

Vivian Bonnell

as Old Lady

Alan Manson

as Captain Freeman

John Henry Faulk

as Gov. Pat Neff

Valerie Odell

as Amy

Drew Thomas

as Sharecropper

John Keith

as Guard

Hitide Harris

as Leadbelly (singing)

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