Leadbelly

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.

Details

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