The banjo-playing teen star of the 1972 thriller film Deliverance, Billy Redden, 66, looks unrecognizable more than five decades after the movie's release as he turns his back on showbiz.

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 ...

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 ...

And so it might have remained but for Burton who was in Alabama this summer filming Big Fish. He kept asking his aides to find "the boy from Deliverance", because he had a banjo-playing part in mind.

Likewise, Redden’s banjo playing is handled by a proficient picker. “So we had to prerecord the song,” noted Cox, explaining his job in the movie was to mimic the playback note for note.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- Eagle-eyed audiences may recognize the porch-dwelling banjo player in the new film "Big Fish" as the same musician from the 1972 film "Deliverance." "I loved that ...

Forty years ago this summer, a movie called "Deliverance" made a big star out of Burt Reynolds. It also showcased the beauty of a little-known part of the south while scaring the heck out of ...

Eric Weissberg, who arranged, played banjo on and won a Grammy for “Dueling Banjos,” from the 1972 movie Deliverance, died Sunday of Alzheimer’s disease complications. He was 80. His son ...

The banjo kid, real name Lonnie in the film, was played by Billy Redden who was 15 years old at the time of filming. Now Billy is 66 years old and he left the world of Hollywood behind.