Leadbelly(1976)
movie - first aired/released 1976-05-28 - 126 min - audience 6.4
Drama
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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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
- Rozaa JeanSugar Tit
- Nat WilliamsAlbert
Madge SinclairMiss Eula- George WilliamsShorty
- Timothy PickardGray Man
- Rhetta GreeneLethe
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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
- John KeithGuard
- Hitide HarrisLeadbelly (singing)
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