Leadbelly

Leadbelly (1976)

You can't bury a black legend like 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.

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  • Release Date: 1976-05-28
  • Runtime: 2h 6min
  • Director: Gordon Parks

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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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