who was banjo player in deliverance
Tuesday, October 6, 2015. Billy Redden: The Banjo Player from Deliverance. Billy Redden was the young inbred actor that played Lonnie, the banjo in the film Deliverance. Billy was born in 1956 in Georgia and was only 15 years old when he acted in the film. The scene that Billy played in was a memorable moment in the film when he played the song Dueling Banjos with the actor Ronny Cox.