Zappa

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.

Genre : MusicDocumentary

Runtime : 129 mins

Release Date : 2020-11-27

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Cast

Frank Zappa

(Self (archive footage))

Mike Keneally

(Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988)

Pamela Des Barres

(Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs)

Lonnie Lardner

(Self - Newscaster for Action News (archive footage))

Patrice Zappa

(Self - Frank Zappa's Sister (archive footage))

Rose Zappa

(Self - Frank Zappa's Mother (archive footage))

Francis Zappa

(Self - Frank Zappa's Father (archive footage))

Edgard Varèse

(Self (archive footage))

Don Van Vliet

(Self (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart))

The Mothers of Invention

(Themselves (archive footage))

Johnny Guitar Watson

(Self (archive footage))

Pamela Zarubica

(Self - Zappa's Roommate)

Carlo Zappavigna

(Self - Frank Zappa's Brother (archive footage))

Bunk Gardner

(Self - Played with Zappa 1966-1969)

Ian Underwood

(Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975)

Ruth Underwood

(Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1976)

Gail Zappa

(Self - Frank Zappa's Wife)

Tom Wilson

(Self - Music Producer (archive footage))

Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood

(Self - Baritone Saxophone / Percusion (archive footage))

Roy Estrada

(Self - Bass (archive footage))

Ray Collins

(Self - Vocal (archive footage))

Don Preston

(Self - Keyboards (archive footage))

Jimmy Carl Black

(Self - Drums (archive footage))

Arthur Dyer Tripp III

(Self - Percusion (archive footage) (as Art Tripp))

Cal Schenkel

(Self (archive footage))

Jimi Hendrix

(Self (archive footage))

Moon Unit Zappa

(Self (archive footage))

Ronald Reagan

(Self (archive footage))

Nancy Reagan

(Self (archive footage))

David Bowie

(Self (archive footage))

Mick Jagger

(Self (archive footage))

Joni Mitchell

(Self (archive footage))

Dweezil Zappa

(Self (archive footage))

Alice Cooper

(Self (archive footage))

Howard Kaylan

(Self (archive footage))

Mark Volman

(Self (archive footage))

Aynsley Dunbar

(Self - Drums (archive footage))

Jeff Simmons

(Self - Bass (archive footage))

George Duke

(Self - Keyboards / Trombone (archive footage))

Jean-Luc Ponty

(Self (archive footage))

Yoko Ono

(Self (archive footage))

John Lennon

(Self (archive footage))

Jerry D. Good

(Self - Producer, 200 Motels (archive footage) (as Jerry Good))

Ringo Starr

(Self (archive footage))

Steve Vai

(Self - Played with Zappa 1980-1982)

Ike Willis

(Self - Played with Zappa 1978-1979 (archive footage))

Bruce Bickford

(Self - Animator)

Tom Fowler

(Self (archive footage))

Napoleon Murphy Brock

(Self (archive footage) (as Napoleon Brock))

Ralph Humphrey

(Self (archive footage))

Chester Thompson

(Self (archive footage))

Bruce Fowler

(Self (archive footage))

Patrick O'Hearn

(Self (archive footage))

Peter Wolf

(Self (archive footage))

Terry Bozzio

(Self (archive footage))

Tommy Mars

(Self (archive footage))

Adrian Belew

(Self (archive footage))

Scott Thunes

(Self - Played with Zappa 1981-1988)

Joe Travers

(Self)

John Belushi

(Self (archive footage))

Ray White

(Self - Played with Zappa 1976-1984)

Arthur Barrow

(Self (archive footage))

Vinnie Colaiuta

(Self (archive footage))

Diva Zappa

(Self (archive footage))

Sandi Freeman

(Self (archive footage))

Mike Douglas

(Self (archive footage))

Norman Seeff

(Self (archive footage))

David Harrington

(Self)

Robin Denselow

(Self (archive footage))

Kent Nagano

(Self (archive footage))

David Letterman

(Self (archive footage))

Ahmet Zappa

(Self (archive footage))

Pierre Boulez

(Self (archive footage))

David Raksin

(Self (archive footage))

Ted Koppel

(Self (archive footage))

Susan Baker

(Self - PMRC Member (archive footage))

Arsenio Hall

(Self (archive footage))

Gary Iskowitz

(Self (voice))

David Dondorf

(Self - Music Engineer (voice))

Kathleen Sullivan

(Self (archive footage))

Václav Havel

(Self - President of Czechoslovakia (archive footage))

Jamie Gangel

(Self (archive footage))

Ensemble Modern

(Themselves (archive footage))

Arthur Brown

(Self (archive footage))

Adam Curry

(Self)

Hank Dutt

(Self)

Buzz Gardner

(Self (archive footage))

Al Gore

(Self (archive footage))

Tipper Gore

(Self (archive footage))

David Harrington

(Self (archive footage))

Brian Jones

(Self (archive footage))

John Lofton

(Self (archive footage))

Miss Mercy

(Self (archive footage))

John Sherba

(Self)

Bill Wyman

(Self (archive footage))

Sunny Yang

(Self)

Charles Manson

(Self (archive footage))