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Originally posted by CutiePie2000:
The young boy in Deliverance - what sort of medical condition do you think he has to make him look....uh...."different"? Or is it just inbreeding?
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I think it's just a Georgia thing? Only kidding!!!
I better stop or some people are gonna get really PO'd!
There's a little debate on who played him, he is generally credited as Hoyt J. Pollard. According to IMDB he made one more film appearance 13 years later in a movie called "Blastfighter". His role.... 'Banjo player'.
As for his 'condition' Cutie, he is oft described as "genetically-compromised Appalachian boy"/"bald albino boy" rather than a reference to any condition beyond inbreeding? One
source provides this: Did you Know?
For his role as the inbred mute banjo boy in Deliverance (1972), actor Hoyt Pollard endured two hours of make-up for his drastic cosmetic change. The result was one of the decade's most memorable cinematic appearances.
On the debate of whom he was, it (the banjo playing boy role in the 'dulleing banjos' scene) is also attributed to "Billy Redden".
Source: "I read the book by Chris Dickey (Summer of Deliverance) The boy that did that scene was who he was. He was a real backward boy. He (the author) did not mention a Hoyt Pollard."