This is Billy Redden, the guy who played the "dueling banjos" kid in Deliverance. And I'm struggling really hard to make ends meet.[3]. '*Think I'm 'exaggerating? Redden said that though Deliverance was the best thing that happened to him, he never saw much money from the movie: I'd like to have all the money I thought I'd make from this movie. It's peaceful, not a lot of crime going on, just a real peaceful town. He portrayed a banjo-playing "local" during the film's famous "dueling banjos" scene. An image tagged creepy banjo kid joe biden. [2] The hidden banjo player was shown playing "clawhammer" style, while the soundtrack had the banjo music as three finger "Earl Scruggs" style. He played a banjo in the skit. Posted by 5 years ago. Boorman felt that Redden's skinny frame, large head, and almond-shaped eyes made him the natural choice to play the part of an "inbred from the back woods." Are actually stealing from the government while the homeless in the real world, if you must, suffer with no hope. That's crazy and completely abusive to the unborn child.

Billy Redden (born 1956) is an American actor, best known for his role as a backwoods mountain boy in the 1972 film Deliverance.He played Lonnie, a banjo-playing teenager in north Georgia, who played the noted "Dueling Banjos" with Drew Ballinger ().The film was critically acclaimed and received nominations for awards in several categories. He played Lonnie, a banjo-playing teenager of the country in north Georgia, who played the noted "Dueling Banjos" with one of the principal actors. Articles on many different subjects. It explored the feelings of people in Rabun County four decades later about the 1972 film.

In 2009, Redden played again his usual role (The banjo man) in Ace Cruz's film Outrage: Born in Terror. Billy Redden was a typical local teen living in Georgia, hand-picked by director John Boorman for the role of an odd banjo player in the Oscar nominated classic Deliverance (1972). Burton was intent on getting Redden, as he wanted him to play the role of a banjo-playing "welcomer" in the utopian town of Spectre. Burton located Redden in Clayton, where he was part-owner of the Cookie Jar Café, and also worked as a cook and dishwasher. [3], "Burt Reynolds and 'Deliverance' boy reunited ", "40 Years Later, Deliverance Causes Mixed Feelings in Georgia", "Another celebrity appearance for Rabun star (Archived 27 Dec 2004)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Billy_Redden&oldid=981387065, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 2 October 2020, at 00:40. But on the other hand, he had a complete dislike on Ned Beatty, so the trick used by the director to get the exact reaction in the shot was to put Beatty next to Cox to make Billy react with disgust, dead-on face expressions towards Beatty. Every dog gets his day. The thriller is famously known for a scene, the music scene in the beginning, where one of the city men can be seen playing Dueling Banjos on guitar with a banjo-strumming country boy. Billy Redden - Biography. I live in an area just like 'Deliverance' and the numbers of'flat-out 47-Chromosome' retardates is shockingly real.A half-block from me...there's a guy in his late 20's that ismore or less a 'brain-damaged mo'suckle ridin' white-trash 'jail-bait' that deliberately TWO 'profound retardates' along with an assortment of 'baby mamas' to breed them and did itFOR THE MONEY he will receive for as long as they live!And he's not an 'isolated case' of that either...no wonder all the Southern Baptists in the South are 'dead-set' against abortion...they 'gets paid fer breedin' usn's a pack a feebs! Because Redden could not play a banjo, he wore a special shirt which allowed a real banjo player to hide behind him for the scene, which was shot with carefully chosen camera angles that would conceal the player, whose arms were slipped around Redden's waist to play the tune. Redden next appeared in Tim Burton's 2003 film Big Fish. Noting some locals objected to the stereotypes in the movie, Redden said that the people in Rabun County were good people: We're not a bad people up here, we're a loving people. When i talk about people leachimg off others I include all people and races. ALL THINGS WEIRD. He played Lonnie, a banjo-playing teenager in north Georgia, who played the noted "Dueling Banjos" with Drew Ballinger (Ronny Cox).

He works at the Walmart in Clayton, Georgia. I wouldn't be working at Walmart right now. Billy Redden was a typical local teen living in Georgia, hand-picked by director John Boorman for the role of an odd banjo player in the Oscar nominated classic Deliverance (1972). In 2008, Deliverance was selected for conservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Billy was hand-picked from his local elementary school largely due to his “look” ( Billy’s large head,skinny body, odd-shaped eyes and moronic grin had sadly branded […] Everybody pretty much gets along with everybody. This 16-year-old boy from Rabun County, Georgia was the only “authentic” local to play the role of The Banjo Boy in John Boorman’s disturbing hit movie of 1972 Deliverance. Rabun County is a pretty good town. Billy Redden: The Banjo Player from Deliverance.

The Search for the Jersey Devil: Revisited book re... Did Courtney Love Use El Duce to Kill Kurt Cobain ... IDIOCRACY, The Big Bang Theory and the Dumbing Dow... Was the Jersey Devil Finally Videotaped/Photographed? Billy Redden (born 1956) is an American actor, best known for his role in the 1972 film Deliverance. In 2004, Redden made a guest appearance on Blue Collar TV, playing a car repairman named Ray in a "Redneck Dictionary" skit. He returned to acting in Blastfighter (1984), where he also plays a banjo player, a trademark of his in his subsequent films such as a cameo in Tim Burton's Big Fish (2003) and Outrage: Born in Terror (2009). 12.1k.

Billy was born in 1956 in Georgia and was only 15 years old when he acted in the film.

My whole life is a lie. By the time he appeared in Big Fish (2003) he was working at a cafe nearby the film location. The film was critically acclaimed and received nominations for awards in several categories. Billy Redden is best known for playing Lonnie, the creepy banjo kid, in the 1972 film "Deliverance." And the sequence asked for Billy's character to show a complete state of contempt for Cox's character (his on-screen rival) but he couldn't act in such way with the actor because he was very fond of him. The rest was all accomplished in the editing room.After the exposition in Deliverance (1972), Redden vanished from the screen but became a tourist guide to people who wanted visit the filming locations. After Deliverance, Redden was cast in Lamberto Bava's 1984 film Blastfighter. Stalmaster recommended Redden to the director John Boorman, though Redden was not an albino child as Boorman had requested, and Redden was cast.[1]. Redden was born in Rabun County, Georgia, on October 13, 1956. Now say the same thing about black people or do you not have the guts? Billy Redden was the young "inbred" actor that played Lonnie, the banjo in the film Deliverance.

Billy Redden (born 1956) is an American actor, best known for his role as a backwoods mountain boy in the 1972 film Deliverance. Close. The scene that Billy played in was a memorable moment in the film when he played the song Dueling Banjos with the actor Ronny Cox. In 2012, 40 years after the release of Deliverance, Redden was interviewed in association with a documentary, The Deliverance of Rabun County (2012). Blastfighter Banjo Man (1984) Actor Deliverance Lonnie (1972) To Boorman, Redden had the exact look of a country boy, the mannerisms and something different than the usual, qualities he needed for a part that could only be suitable to someone who wasn't trained as an actor - a non speaking part in one sequence where he makes a banjo duel against Ronny Cox. Just a big shame. The sequence turned out to be one of the highest points of the thriller, and one of the most memorable moments of cinema.Some facts about the scene is that Redden didn't know how to play the banjo so another teenager was his hand double in the song "Duelling Banjos" while in the soundtrack Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell were the musicians performing the song. And how sad it is that these people? FEEL OLD YET? *, You call Southerners ignorant yet You Cannot Spell or Write a sentence you ignorant BITCH. The film was recorded in and around Clayton, Georgia, and many people recall it as a mixture of Deliverance and First Blood.

Plain sick. He represented the word "raisin bread" (as in "Ray's inbred"). '* *Look-up the figures for State payments for 'Developmentally Disabled' children and adults forHardin/Pope/Williams/Saline Counties in Southern Illinois...and you'll find the same statistics for Western Ky. and Southern Indiana...you'll be in for a shock! Guess what he looks like now! Archived. ... TIL "Dueling Banjos" is actually a banjo and a guitar. REMEMBER THE CREEPY BANJO KID FROM DELIVERANCE?

[citation needed], At the age of fifteen, he was discovered by Lynn Stalmaster, who was scouting for the movie Deliverance.