Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene

Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene

Release: 2008 | Community Score: 84%

Actor Don Cheadle narrates the story of America's first shock-jock, Washington D.C. radio personality Ralph "Petey" Greene.

Cast

Don Cheadle

Don Cheadle

Narrator (voice)
Ralph Waldo

Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene, Jr.

self - television and radio talk-show host (archival footage)
Robert Hooks

Robert Hooks

self - actor and producer
Chuck Brown

Chuck Brown

self - musician and former cell mate of Petey Greene
Marion Barry

Marion Barry

self - former mayor of Washington, DC
Howard Stern

Howard Stern

self
Ralph Greene Sr.

Ralph Greene Sr.

self - Petey Greene's father (archival photo)
Maggie Floyd

Maggie Floyd

self - Petey Greene's mother (archival footage)
Dewey Hughes

Dewey Hughes

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

Roach Brown

self - playwright, fellow inmate at Lorton Penitentiary
Frank Smith, Jr.

Frank Smith, Jr.

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

Clarence Greene

self - Petey Greene's brother
Ernie Barnes

Ernie Barnes

self - Artiste
Virginia Ali

Virginia Ali

self - Owner, Ben's Chili Bowl
Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis

Dr. Charlene Drew Jarvis

self - President, Southeastern University
Sandra Butler

Sandra Butler

self - retired tv executive
Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.

self - archival footage
Sugar Ray Leonard

Sugar Ray Leonard

self - boxing legend
James Brown

James Brown

self - sportscaster
Alfred Liggins, III

Alfred Liggins, III

self - CEO, Radio One; Chairman, TV One
Petra Greene

Petra Greene

self - daughter of Petey Greene (archival footage)
Ralph Waldo Greene, III

Ralph Waldo Greene, III

self - Petey Greene's son (archive footage)
Sister Claudette Muhammad

Sister Claudette Muhammad

self - Chief of Protocol, Nation of Islam
Madeline Petty

Madeline Petty

self - Deputy Director, DC Dept of Housing
Donna Brazile

Donna Brazile

self - Mobilization Chairman, March on Washington
Dana Jones

Dana Jones

self - CEO, United Planning Organization
Midge Costanza

Midge Costanza

self - Special Assistant to President Carter