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Leadbelly

You can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly!

28 May 1976
  • United States of America
126 mins
6.1
7 votes
  • Drama
articleOverview personCast
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.
  • Roger E. Mosley

    as Huddie Ledbetter
  • Paul Benjamin

    as Wes Ledbetter
  • Madge Sinclair

    as Miss Eula
  • Alan Manson

    as Prison Chief Guard
  • Albert Hall

    as Dicklicker
  • Art Evans

    as Blind Lemon Jefferson
  • James Brodhead

    as John Lomax
  • John Henry Faulk

    as Gov. Pat Neff
  • Lynn Hamilton

    as Sally Ledbetter
  • Ernie Hudson

    as Archie
  • William Wintersole

    as Sheriff Gibbons
  • Rhetta Greene

    as Lethe

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