poster

Leadbelly

Drama

6.1

Release Date

May 28, 1976

Duration

126 min

Status

Released

Language

en

Overview

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

Roger E. Mosley

Huddie Ledbetter

Roger E. Mosley

Paul Benjamin

Wes Ledbetter

Paul Benjamin

Madge Sinclair

Miss Eula

Madge Sinclair

Alan Manson

Prison Chief Guard

Alan Manson

Albert Hall

Dicklicker

Albert Hall

Art Evans

Blind Lemon Jefferson

Art Evans

James Brodhead

John Lomax

James Brodhead

John Henry Faulk

Gov. Pat Neff

John Henry Faulk

Lynn Hamilton

Sally Ledbetter

Lynn Hamilton

Ernie Hudson

Archie (as Earnest L. Hudson)

Ernie Hudson

William Wintersole

Sheriff Gibbons

William Wintersole

Rhetta Greene

Lethe

Rhetta Greene

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