Deliverance's 'backwoods banjo boy' is unrecognizable more than 50 YEARS after the film debuted - having quit the movie industry and turned to odd jobs in order to make ends meet
![Deliverance's 'backwoods banjo boy' is unrecognizable more than 50 YEARS after the film debuted - having quit the movie industry and turned to odd jobs in order to make ends meet Deliverance's 'backwoods banjo boy' is unrecognizable more than 50 YEARS after the film debuted - having quit the movie industry and turned to odd jobs in order to make ends meet](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/07/28/13/73702457-0-image-a-45_1690548958402.jpg)
Deliverance's 'backwoods banjo boy' is unrecognizable more than 50 YEARS after the film debuted - having quit the movie industry and turned to odd jobs in order to make ends meet
![In the movie Big Fish (2003) the banjo player in the town of Spectre is Billy Redden, the same actor that played the banjo kid in Deliverance (1972) : r/MovieDetails In the movie Big Fish (2003) the banjo player in the town of Spectre is Billy Redden, the same actor that played the banjo kid in Deliverance (1972) : r/MovieDetails](https://i.redd.it/45z9eb636c811.jpg)
In the movie Big Fish (2003) the banjo player in the town of Spectre is Billy Redden, the same actor that played the banjo kid in Deliverance (1972) : r/MovieDetails
![Eric Weissberg Dead: Arranger & Player On 'Dueling Banjos' Song From ' Deliverance' Was 80 – Deadline Eric Weissberg Dead: Arranger & Player On 'Dueling Banjos' Song From ' Deliverance' Was 80 – Deadline](https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/eric-weissberg-obit.jpg)
Eric Weissberg Dead: Arranger & Player On 'Dueling Banjos' Song From ' Deliverance' Was 80 – Deadline
The Storytellers - Sharp eyed observers (us) recognized this #banjo player from a brief scene in the movie "Big Fish". He is Billy Redden, who once famously played the backwoods boy playing "
![Gil Meslin on X: "@TechnicallyRon When I look at Stephen Miller I see the banjo-playing kid from Deliverance, grown up. https://t.co/GfxG4XCpr8" / X Gil Meslin on X: "@TechnicallyRon When I look at Stephen Miller I see the banjo-playing kid from Deliverance, grown up. https://t.co/GfxG4XCpr8" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGRHpsZUQAAghgS.jpg)
Gil Meslin on X: "@TechnicallyRon When I look at Stephen Miller I see the banjo-playing kid from Deliverance, grown up. https://t.co/GfxG4XCpr8" / X
![The 'Banjo Boy' from Deliverance looks unrecognisable decades after quitting showbiz - Mirror Online The 'Banjo Boy' from Deliverance looks unrecognisable decades after quitting showbiz - Mirror Online](https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article30544547.ece/ALTERNATES/n615/1_BANJO-MAIN.jpg)