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Leadbelly
1976, May 28
2h 6m
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.
Directed by
Gordon Parks
Written by
Ernest Kinoy
Ernie Hudson
Archie
Albert Hall
Dicklicker
Vivian Bonnell
Old Lady
Lynn Hamilton
Sally Ledbetter
Art Evans
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Paul Benjamin
Wes Ledbetter
Madge Sinclair
Miss Eula
Roger E. Mosley
Huddie Ledbetter
Alan Manson
Captain Freeman
Brownie McGhee
David Frost
Sonny Terry
Carole Lamond
Laura May
James Brodhead
John Lomax
John McDonald
Tom Pruitt
Leonard Wrentz
Guard
William Wintersole
Sheriff Gibbons
Melba Englander
Evaline
Pamela Singleton
Fat Bessie
Rozaa Jean
Sugar Tit
Nat Williams
Albert
George Williams
Shorty
Timothy Pickard
Gray Man
Rhetta Greene
Lethe
William Creamer
Conductor
Dearl Croft
Frank
John C. Johnson
Will
Bill Woodard
Alex
Robert C. Farrow
Blacksmith
Peter Harrell
Ally George
B.T. Henderson
Boss #1
Denny Arnold
Boss #2
James Taylor
Dog Boy
John Henry Faulk
Gov. Pat Neff
Valerie Odell
Amy
Drew Thomas
Sharecropper
John Keith
Guard
Hitide Harris
Leadbelly (singing)
Jim Burk
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