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Film / 1976
Leadbelly
Directed by
Gordon Parks
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.
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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.
Cast
Roger E. MosleyHuddie Ledbetter
James BrodheadJohn Lomax
John McDonaldTom Pruitt
Leonard WrentzGuard
Ernie HudsonArchie
Dana MannoMargaret Judd
William WintersoleSheriff Gibbons
Paul BenjaminWes Ledbetter
Lynn HamiltonSally Ledbetter
Carole LamondLaura May
Melba EnglanderEvaline
Pamela SingletonFat Bessie
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Rozaa JeanSugar Tit
Nat WilliamsAlbert
Madge SinclairMiss Eula
George WilliamsShorty
Timothy PickardGray Man
Rhetta GreeneLethe
Art EvansBlind Lemon Jefferson
William CreamerConductor
Dearl CroftFrank
John C. JohnsonWill
Bill WoodardAlex
Robert C. FarrowBlacksmith
Albert HallDicklicker
Peter HarrellAlly George
B.T. HendersonBoss #1
Denny ArnoldBoss #2
James TaylorDog Boy
Vivian BonnellOld Lady
Alan MansonCaptain Freeman
John Henry FaulkGov. Pat Neff
Valerie OdellAmy
Drew ThomasSharecropper
Hitide HarrisLeadbelly (singing)
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