Leadbelly
28/05/1976
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.
Cast


Roger E. Mosley
Huddie Ledbetter
James Brodhead
John Lomax
John McDonald
Tom Pruitt
Leonard Wrentz
Guard


Ernie Hudson
Archie
Dana Manno
Margaret Judd
William Wintersole
Sheriff Gibbons


Paul Benjamin
Wes Ledbetter


Lynn Hamilton
Sally Ledbetter


Carole Lamond
Laura May
Melba Englander
Evaline
Pamela Singleton
Fat Bessie
Rozaa Jean
Sugar Tit
Nat Williams
Albert


Madge Sinclair
Miss Eula
George Williams
Shorty
Timothy Pickard
Gray Man
Rhetta Greene
Lethe


Art Evans
Blind Lemon Jefferson
William Creamer
Conductor
Dearl Croft
Frank
John C. Johnson
Will
Bill Woodard
Alex
Robert C. Farrow
Blacksmith


Albert Hall
Dicklicker
Peter Harrell
Ally George
B.T. Henderson
Boss #1
Denny Arnold
Boss #2
James Taylor
Dog Boy


Vivian Bonnell
Old Lady


Alan Manson
Captain Freeman
John Henry Faulk
Gov. Pat Neff
Valerie Odell
Amy
Drew Thomas
Sharecropper
John Keith
Guard
Hitide Harris
Leadbelly (singing)
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