Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene (2008)

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.

Cast (27)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

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

M

Marion Barry

self - former mayor of Washington, DC

Howard Stern

self

R

Ralph Greene Sr.

self - Petey Greene's father (archival photo)

M

Maggie Floyd

self - Petey Greene's mother (archival footage)

D

Dewey Hughes

self - former radio station owner and Petey Greene's manager

R

Roach Brown

self - playwright, fellow inmate at Lorton Penitentiary

F

Frank Smith, Jr.

self - civil rights activist and politician in Washington, D.C.

C

Clarence Greene

self - Petey Greene's brother

E

Ernie Barnes

self - Artiste

V

Virginia Ali

self - Owner, Ben's Chili Bowl

D

Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis

self - President, Southeastern University

S

Sandra Butler

self - retired tv executive

Martin Luther King Jr.

self - archival footage

Sugar Ray Leonard

self - boxing legend

James Brown

self - sportscaster

A

Alfred Liggins, III

self - CEO, Radio One; Chairman, TV One

P

Petra Greene

self - daughter of Petey Greene (archival footage)

R

Ralph Waldo Greene, III

self - Petey Greene's son (archive footage)

S

Sister Claudette Muhammad

self - Chief of Protocol, Nation of Islam

M

Madeline Petty

self - Deputy Director, DC Dept of Housing

Donna Brazile

self - Mobilization Chairman, March on Washington

D

Dana Jones

self - CEO, United Planning Organization

Midge Costanza

self - Special Assistant to President Carter

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