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Status
Released
Release
2008
Runtime
1h
Available options inUS
"I'll tell it to the hot, I'll tell it to the cold. I'll tell it to the young, I'll tell it to the old. I don't want no laughin', I don't want no cryin', and most of all, no signifyin'. This is Petey Greene's Washington."
Actor Don Cheadle narrates the story of America's first shock-jock, Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene.
27 Cast Members
Don Cheadle
Narrator (voice)
Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, Jr.
self - television and radio talk-show host (archival footage)
Robert Hooks
self - actor and producer
Chuck Brown
self - musician and former cell mate of Petey Greene
Marion Barry
self - former mayor of Washington, DC
Howard Stern
self
Ralph Greene Sr.
self - Petey Greene's father (archival photo)
Maggie Floyd
self - Petey Greene's mother (archival footage)
Dewey Hughes
self - former radio station owner and Petey Greene's manager
Roach Brown
self - playwright, fellow inmate at Lorton Penitentiary
Frank Smith, Jr.
self - civil rights activist and politician in Washington, D.C.
Clarence Greene
self - Petey Greene's brother
Ernie Barnes
self - Artiste
Virginia Ali
self - Owner, Ben's Chili Bowl
Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis
self - President, Southeastern University
Sandra Butler
self - retired tv executive
Martin Luther King Jr.
self - archival footage
Sugar Ray Leonard
self - boxing legend
James Brown
self - sportscaster
Alfred Liggins, III
self - CEO, Radio One; Chairman, TV One