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William Redden (born October 13, 1956) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as a backwoods mountain boy in the 1972 film Deliverance, where he played Lonnie, a banjo-playing teenager in north Georgia, who played the noted "Dueling Banjos" with Drew Ballinger ().
1972 Deliverance as Drew Ballinger; 1972 The Mind Snatchers as Sergeant Boford Miles; 1972 Bonanza, episode "New Man" as Lucas; 1974 A Case of Rape as David Harrod; 1975 Who Is the Black Dahlia? as Sergeant Finis Brown; 1976 Bound for Glory as Ozark Bule; 1977 Quinn Martin's Tales of the Unexpected, episode "Devil Pack" (TV) as Jerry Colby
Eric Weissberg (August 16, 1939 – March 22, 2020) was an American singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist, whose most commercially successful recording was his banjo solo in "Dueling Banjos", featured as the theme of the film Deliverance (1972) and released as a single that reached number 2 in the United States and Canada in 1973.
Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film directed and produced by John Boorman from a screenplay by James Dickey, who adapted it from his own 1970 novel.It follows four businessmen from Atlanta who venture into the remote northern Georgia wilderness to see the Cahulawassee River before it is dammed, only to find themselves in danger from the area's inhabitants and nature.
In 1955, Smith composed a banjo instrumental he called "Feudin' Banjos", and recorded the song with five-string banjo player Don Reno. Later the composition was performed in the popular 1972 film Deliverance, retitled "Dueling Banjos" and played by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell. It was released as a single becoming a major hit: played on Top ...
Dueling Banjos is a 1973 soundtrack album to the film Deliverance by American banjoists Marshall Brickman, Steve Mandell, and Eric Weissberg released by Warner Bros. Records and made up of the title track by Mandell and Weissberg and a repackaged version of the 1963 album New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass by Brickman and Weissberg.
The first consists of primary banjo players and the second of celebrities that also play the banjo This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The episode's title and Homer's attire are references to Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager. [11] Films playing at the Springfield Googolplex at the beginning of the episode include Honey, I Hit a School Bus (a riff on Honey, I Shrunk the Kids), Look Who's Oinking (a parody of Look Who's Talking), and Ernest vs.