Billy Redden News Today

Tom Priestley, the British film editor whose work assembling the dueling-banjos sequence in Deliverance landed him an Oscar nom, has died. He was 91.

Herbert Coward, who as the toothless man in Deliverance delivered the chilling line, "He got a real pretty mouth, ain't he?," has died.

Herbert 'Cowboy' Coward, who terrified audiences as the Toothless Man in 'Deliverance,' has died in a car crash. He was 85.

Bluegrass features upright bass, banjo, fiddle, and mandolin. He didn't invent it, but Bill Monroe is considered the “Father of Bluegrass.”

Hillbilly is a loaded term, enough to warrant a documentary film on the subject. Five years since it released, old perceptions still die hard.

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

The 1972 thriller Deliverance was Billy Redden's first film role as Lonnie the banjo kid. Half a century later, he's trying to shake the Southern stereotypes

The history of "Dueling Banjos" has a tempestuous story thanks to the fact that the original songwriter is often not gifted credit.

In this episode of WTF Happened to this Movie, we look back at the classic Deliverance, starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight.

A cultural center known for documenting Appalachian life is cleaning up and assessing its losses from Kentucky's historic floods.