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Billy Redden (born 1956 in Rabun County, Georgia) is an American actor best known for his role as Lonnie —the " creepy banjo kid "— in the 1972 movie Deliverance . Redden, then sixteen, earned his role in Deliverance during a casting call at Clayton Elementary School in Clayton, Georgia. To add authenticity and humor to the film, the filmmakers found Redden to fit the look of the inbred and mentally retarded banjo boy called for by the book, although Redden himself is neither. The [...]