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The 'backwoods banjo boy' of deliverance is unrecognizable more than 50 years since the film premiered, having left the film industry and moved to odd jobs in order to make ends meet
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July 30, 2023
Billy Redden, 66, the banjo-playing teen star of the 1972 thriller film Deliverance, seems to be unrecognizable more than five decades after the film was released as he returns to showbiz. He came to fame as a young boy in the 'backwoods' who stunned everybody with his banjo skills. Since being cast in the film, he turned his back on Hollywood and the banjo as he now takes on a number of roles to make ends meet and looks nothing like he did when he first came to fame over 50 years ago.