Zappa
2020With 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.
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Frank Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
Mike Keneally
as Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988
Pamela Des Barres
as Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs
Lonnie Lardner
as Self - Newscaster for Action News (archive footage)
Patrice Zappa
as Self - Frank Zappa's Sister (archive footage)
Rose Zappa
as Self - Frank Zappa's Mother (archive footage)
Francis Zappa
as Self - Frank Zappa's Father (archive footage)
Edgard Varèse
as Self (archive footage)
Don Van Vliet
as Self (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart)
The Mothers of Invention
as Themselves (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar Watson
as Self (archive footage)
Pamela Zarubica
as Self - Zappa's Roommate
Carlo Zappavigna
as Self - Frank Zappa's Brother (archive footage)
Bunk Gardner
as Self - Played with Zappa 1966-1969
Ian Underwood
as Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975
Ruth Underwood
as Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1976
Gail Zappa
as Self - Frank Zappa's Wife
Tom Wilson
as Self - Music Producer (archive footage)
Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood
as Self - Baritone Saxophone / Percusion (archive footage)
Roy Estrada
as Self - Bass (archive footage)
Ray Collins
as Self - Vocal (archive footage)
Don Preston
as Self - Keyboards (archive footage)
Jimmy Carl Black
as Self - Drums (archive footage)
Arthur Dyer Tripp III
as Self - Percusion (archive footage) (as Art Tripp)
Cal Schenkel
as Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix
as Self (archive footage)
Moon Unit Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
as Self (archive footage)
Nancy Reagan
as Self (archive footage)
David Bowie
as Self (archive footage)
Mick Jagger
as Self (archive footage)
Joni Mitchell
as Self (archive footage)
Dweezil Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
Alice Cooper
as Self (archive footage)
Howard Kaylan
as Self (archive footage)
Mark Volman
as Self (archive footage)
Aynsley Dunbar
as Self - Drums (archive footage)
Jeff Simmons
as Self - Bass (archive footage)
George Duke
as Self - Keyboards / Trombone (archive footage)
Jean-Luc Ponty
as Self (archive footage)
Yoko Ono
as Self (archive footage)
John Lennon
as Self (archive footage)
Jerry D. Good
as Self - Producer, 200 Motels (archive footage) (as Jerry Good)
Ringo Starr
as Self (archive footage)
Steve Vai
as Self - Played with Zappa 1980-1982
Ike Willis
as Self - Played with Zappa 1978-1979 (archive footage)
Bruce Bickford
as Self - Animator
Tom Fowler
as Self (archive footage)
Napoleon Murphy Brock
as Self (archive footage) (as Napoleon Brock)
Ralph Humphrey
as Self (archive footage)
Chester Thompson
as Self (archive footage)
Bruce Fowler
as Self (archive footage)
Patrick O'Hearn
as Self (archive footage)
Peter Wolf
as Self (archive footage)
Terry Bozzio
as Self (archive footage)
Tommy Mars
as Self (archive footage)
Adrian Belew
as Self (archive footage)
Scott Thunes
as Self - Played with Zappa 1981-1988
Joe Travers
as Self
John Belushi
as Self (archive footage)
Ray White
as Self - Played with Zappa 1976-1984
Arthur Barrow
as Self (archive footage)
Vinnie Colaiuta
as Self (archive footage)
Diva Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
Sandi Freeman
as Self (archive footage)
Mike Douglas
as Self (archive footage)
Norman Seeff
as Self (archive footage)
David Harrington
as Self
Robin Denselow
as Self (archive footage)
Kent Nagano
as Self (archive footage)
David Letterman
as Self (archive footage)
Ahmet Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
Pierre Boulez
as Self (archive footage)
David Raksin
as Self (archive footage)
Ted Koppel
as Self (archive footage)
Susan Baker
as Self - PMRC Member (archive footage)
Arsenio Hall
as Self (archive footage)
Gary Iskowitz
as Self (voice)
David Dondorf
as Self - Music Engineer (voice)
Kathleen Sullivan
as Self (archive footage)
Václav Havel
as Self - President of Czechoslovakia (archive footage)
Jamie Gangel
as Self (archive footage)
Ensemble Modern
as Themselves (archive footage)
Arthur Brown
as Self (archive footage)
Adam Curry
as Self
Hank Dutt
as Self
Buzz Gardner
as Self (archive footage)
Al Gore
as Self (archive footage)
Tipper Gore
as Self (archive footage)
David Harrington
as Self (archive footage)
Brian Jones
as Self (archive footage)
John Lofton
as Self (archive footage)
Miss Mercy
as Self (archive footage)
John Sherba
as Self
Bill Wyman
as Self (archive footage)
Sunny Yang
as Self
Charles Manson
as Self (archive footage)