Movie buffs will remember the banjo kid from the beginning of the 1972 thriller Deliverance, but wouldn't be able to recognise him now. The banjo kid, real name Lonnie in the film, was played by ...

The banjo-playing teen star of the 1972 thriller film Deliverance looks unrecognizable more than five decades after the movie's release as he turns his back on showbiz. 51 years after the film ...

This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the screen adaptation of James Dickey’s Deliverance, as famous for its Grammy Award-winning instrumental song “Dueling Banjos” as its unsettling ...

ATLANTA — He is probably one of the most iconic and memorable characters from the movie “Deliverance.” Billy Redden, who played the “Banjo Boy” in the movie, was just 15 when it was ...

“Feudin’ Banjos” made its second most well-known ... its appearance on the Oscar-nominated and cult classic 1972 film Deliverance. The song is credited for arguably making the most famous ...

Yet Deliverance, released in the US 50 years ago ... The film is remembered for two sequences especially: one of "duelling banjos" in which Drew and a local boy (Billy Redden) conjure up an ...

Deliverance was Beatty’s first film ... the pair engaging in a rousing rendition of bluegrass classic “Dueling Banjos.” Rebuffed by the silent boy when he goes in for a handshake, however ...

By Rhett Bartlett Tom Priestley, the British film editor whose work assembling the dueling-banjos sequence and hellish “squeal like a pig” attack in John Boorman’s Deliverance landed him an ...