Leadbelly

1976 "You can't bury a black legend like Leadbelly!"
7.2| 2h6m| PG| en| Drama
Storyline

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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  • Leadbelly Cast
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
Lynn Hamilton as Sally Ledbetter
Ernie Hudson as Archie (as Earnest L. Hudson)