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Leadbelly

"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

42156

Roger E. Mosley

as Huddie Ledbetter

15534

Paul Benjamin

as Wes Ledbetter

58074

Madge Sinclair

as Miss Eula

79735

Alan Manson

as Prison Chief Guard

8354

Albert Hall

as Dicklicker

56183

Art Evans

as Blind Lemon Jefferson

1423661

James Brodhead

as John Lomax

1372356

John Henry Faulk

as Gov. Pat Neff

96706

Lynn Hamilton

as Sally Ledbetter

8874

Ernie Hudson

as Archie (as Earnest L. Hudson)

1637878

William Wintersole

as Sheriff Gibbons

175071

Rhetta Greene

as Lethe

Crew

24315

Fred Karlin

Original Music Composer

792

Bruce Surtees

Director of Photography

2657

Robert F. Boyle

Production Design

96704

Ernest Kinoy

Writer

70596

Marc Merson

Producer

6558

Gordon Parks

Director

117405

John A. Kuri

Set Decoration

1365238

Thomas Penick

Editor

1423659

Moe Howard

Editor

93328

David Frost

Producer