Talk:Billy Redden

Fact or claim?

Curious... the article says he's not inbred. How do you know? Anybody have the Redden family tree handy? Kafziel 19:37, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

• Innocent 'til proven guilty. I ain't gonna go find out, how 'bout you?--DarthKobold 11:23, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Kafziel's wiki page make no mention about him being inbred. Truth by omission? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.181.253.68 (talk) 18:12, 30 January 2009 (UTC)

Billy Redden vs. Hoyt Pollard?

I have a question. I've also seen/heard that it was Hoyt Pollard who played the role of the banjo playing boy in Deliverance, and appeared in Big Fish... not Billy Redden. IMDB *also* says that Hoyt Pollard played in ANOTHER movie back in 1984 (another banjo playing part, in Blastfighter).

The current Wikipedia article says that the banjo player in Deliverance is Billy Redden, and he didn't play in the Blastfighter movie.

Can anyone clear this up - here, in the Billy Redden description, and in the Deliverance description?

Thanks...

  -dave

• Idiots. It IS Hoyt Pollard and he did NOT play Lonny or Lonnie. He is credited in the damn movie as just being "banjo playing boy". Now maybe some of you can get your head out of your asses and do some actual finding out by watching the damn movie to begin with and reading the credits after.*

Billy Redden played the banjo playing boy (Lonny) in Deliverance and he also played in Big Fish. This is also according to his credits on IMDB. I do have one question though, was the casting call at the elementary school for students or an open one? 16 years old and still in elementary school sure seems a stretch. Here is a link to a local (Georgia) Newspaper article that will verify it was Billy Redden (pictures and all): http://www.theclaytontribune.com/articles/2004/10/07/news/news02.txtClayton

-- It was probably an open casting call held at the elementary school. The tone of the article doesn't clarify that Redden is a "normal" person, but it would be considered exploitation if he weren't (to use a mentally disabled minor and only pay him $500 for the role). -- Cami Solomon

Hi this is jeff--jeffhome@comcast.net--forget all that stuff about Hoyt Pollard we were just up visiting billy and anyone can email me. I intend to write several people about billys mom getting 500$ yet the movie made 47 million profit. Titanic made alot--the stars all got one million extra bonuses while Billy is up there struggling. I wont let it stand..... Jeff

I know Billy personally and I can assure you it was him in Deliverance. Also, he was the co owner of the Cookie Jar Cafe although he sold it recently.

Signature, please. Oh Frustration (talk) 15:20, 10 October 2011 (UTC)

Billy Redden is a very nice guy

This past Thanksgiving I was on vacation at Lake Rabun, Georgia. While there I decided to look in on Billy Redden at the Cookie Jar Cafe (of which he is part owner, NOT just a worker) in Clayton, GA. He is doing quite well and has a couple of projects in the works, including a book about his life and another role in a movie. I found him to be a very likeable, warm, and respectful person.

Billy Redden

≠58.169.237.217 02:32, 26 April 2007 (UTC)Billy Redden is an extremely nice man, very polite and friendly. I too think it's ridiculous that he is only paid $500 for what he did in the Movie Deliverance! I mean that Scene is one of the All Time Greatest in any Movie in History and the 'Dueling Banjo's Tune' will be remembered forever. He should be receiving a huge Back payment!

Question/comments

I'm pretty sure I saw a short piece about him some time back on one of the network morning shows ("The Today Show" or some such) in which it was said that he (1) is not inbred and (2) did not actually play the banjo music heard in the movie. The article itself makes no mention of either...can anyone confirm either of these items?

Also, I found it interesting that the reference article (appearing as a source for the Jon Voight quote) describes Redden as "albino", which he is clearly not. Additionally, it makes reference to "The Shawshank Redemption" having a rape scene that is similar the scenes in both "Deliverance" and "Pulp Fiction", which is also inaccurate (as, in fact, it is debateable whether any of the scenes in "Shawshank" even alluded to rape--it certainly did not appear on screen). At what point does a given 'reference' link become unusable due to a preponderance of factual errors and misleading statements?

Finally, the wiki article claims that Redden liked Cox but disliked Beatty. Is there a source for this claim? -Grammaticus Repairo (talk) 01:30, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 11:16, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

First-hand/second-hand information from living people - How to cite?

My mother, Judith Combs (then with the family name Junker, when married to my father), was Billy Redden's special education teacher when my father was teaching at the University of Georgia in Athens in the early 70s. I am not sure if there is any other way to verify this information, aside from Billy Redden himself, if he remembers, but my mother told me that she was very sad for him, as the money paid to him for the film "Deliverance", which supposedly was not much, had been taken by his mother's abusive boyfriend. I suppose that there should be a way to insert such information, but I am unaware as to how, as there are no published sources to cite.

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Clayton. No reference.

Clayton is cited as a filming location for Blastfighter without explaining where Clayton is or what other significance it might have for that film or Deliverance for that matter. Billy Redden was born in Rabun County whose county seat is Clayton. Clayton may also have had some role in the movie Deliverance (I'm not sure) but that should be discussed in this article.Ealtram (talk) 01:58, 28 November 2016 (UTC)