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The Buddy Holly Story

Year:

1978

Duration:

114 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama | Music

IMDB rate:

7.2

Director:

Steve Rash

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 5 wins & 3 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1978-11-03

Filming Locations: Biltmore Hotel - 506 S. Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Earnings

Gross: $14,363,400 (USA) Rentals $6,400,000 (USA)

Cast

Actor

Character

Maria Richwine

The Buddy Holly Story

Gary Busey

Buddy

Don Stroud

Jesse

Charles Martin Smith

Ray Bob

Conrad Janis

Ross Turner

William Jordan

Riley

Amy Johnston

Cindy Lou

Dick O'Neill

Sol Gittler

Fred Travalena

Madman Mancuso

Neva Patterson

Mrs. Holly

Arch Johnson

Mr. Holly

John F. Goff

T.J.

Gloria Irizarry

Mrs. Santiago

Jody Berry

Engineer Sam

Richard Kennedy

Preacher

Jim Beach

Wilson

Gailard Sartain

Big Bopper

Albert Popwell

Eddie

Paul Mooney

Sam

Freeman King

Apollo M.C.

Matthew 'Stymie' Beard

Luther

Bill Phillips Murry

Desk Clerk

Joe Renzetti

Violinist #1

Rajah Bergman

Violinist #2

Alan Peterson

8 Year Old

John Waldron

6 Year Old

M.G. Kelly

Avalon M.C.

Craig White

King Curtis

Jerry Zaremba

Eddie Cochran

John B. Jarvis

Pianist - Eddie Cochran Band

Richard Hayward

Drummer - Eddie Cochran Band

David Miner

Bass - Eddie Cochran Band

Jack Denbo

New York Cabbie

Paul Carmello

Mr. Parker

Robert Christopher

Cadillac Salesman

Jack Jozefson

Stage Manager

Buddy Miles

Tour Musician

Loutz Gage

Producer

Peter Griffin

Director

Gilbert Melgar

Richie Valens

John Fisher

Man in Theater

Will Jordan

Ed Sullivan

Bill Lytle

Delbert

Raoulle

Barking Dog

Cora

Ruby

Mags Kavanaugh

Sissy Lou

Hope Sage

Fan (uncredited)

Eric Voge

Groupie

Did you know?

Trivia

Also according to Busey and Director Steve Rash, the scene at the roller rink after the band's first rock number in which the extras clapped and cheered was an unexpected reaction to their performance. As you can see in the film, Busey, Smith, and Stroud sort of lose their place and start nervously laughing.

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In the scene where Cindy Lou gets on the bus to go back to college, Busey was originally supposed to answer her question of "What am I gonna tell the kids at college?" with "Cindy Lou?...Kiss my ass!" But director Steve Rash didn't like that line and so they came up with "Boola, Boola." instead. (According to DVD commentary)

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Madman Mancuso, played by comedian/impressionist 'Fred Travelana', is based on a true story about DJ Hall-0f-Famer Dick Biondi. Travlena even managed to look and sound like the real Biondi.

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Goofs

The closing caption refers to "Clearlake" (one word), Iowa. The city is "Clear Lake" (two words), as seen at the city's official website, http://www.clearlakeiowa.com/. The same mistake is made in the name of the (erroneous) "Clearlake Auditorium".

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Buddy Holly played the Fender Stratocaster guitar. In the movie, he plays a Telecaster.

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The Crickets real names were Jerry Allison and Joe B. Mauldin, not Jesse and Ray Bob as in the movie.

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Quotes

Buddy Holly: Hey, Riley, we're all plugged in and checked up... yeah, we're ready.

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Buddy Holly: Boo!

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Buddy Holly: Thank you, Clearlake! C'mon... we love you, we'll see you next year.

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