Banjo Boy, real name Billy Redden, made a famous appearance in Deliverance Movie buffs will remember the banjo kid from the beginning of the 1972 thriller Deliverance, but wouldn't be able to ...

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.

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.

1. The Crew Stumbled Upon The Infamous Banjo Kid In Deliverance By Accident And A Cameraman Caught It On Film Without a doubt, the most famous scene in John Boorman's man vs. nature masterpiece ...

ATLANTA — 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 ...