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 filmed in North Georgia in ...

If the 1939 premiere of "Gone With The Wind" put Atlanta on the celluloid map, "Deliverance" did the same 32 years later for the entire state of Georgia. Within a few short years scores of films came ...

At 15, Billy Redden might have expected a career on the silver screen after appearing in Oscar-nominated movie Deliverance. But despite being one of the most unmistakable faces in Hollywood for a ...

The 1972 movie Deliverance introduced us to an emaciated, banjo-playin’ boy with a forehead the size of a satellite dish. The young George W. (just kidding) seemed strangely aware of the city slickers ...

Deliverance, which is based on a novel of the same name by James Dickey, was one of the most controversial and disturbing films of the 1970s and is still considered a classic today ...

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