He adapted his novel "Deliverance" for the big screen & played a sheriff in the 1972 movie
He kept calling the actors by the names of the people they were playing even 
while ... By the way, James Dickey, author of Deliverance, portrayed the Sheriff at 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Four Men, Forty Years, Unforgettable: Deliverance | Huffington Post [PAR] Jul 9, 2012 ...