Zappa
Music | Documentary
Release Date
November 27, 2020
Duration
129 min
Status
Released
Language
en
Overview
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.
Casts
Self (archive footage)
Frank Zappa
Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988
Mike Keneally
Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs
Pamela Des Barres
Self - Newscaster for Action News (archive footage)
Lonnie Lardner
Self - Frank Zappa's Sister (archive footage)
Patrice Zappa
Self - Frank Zappa's Mother (archive footage)
Rose Zappa
Self - Frank Zappa's Father (archive footage)
Francis Zappa
Self (archive footage)
Edgard Varèse
Self (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart)
Don Van Vliet
Themselves (archive footage)
The Mothers of Invention
Self (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar Watson
Self - Zappa's Roommate
Pamela Zarubica
Self - Frank Zappa's Brother (archive footage)
Carlo Zappavigna
Self - Played with Zappa 1966-1969
Bunk Gardner
Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975
Ian Underwood
Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1976
Ruth Underwood
Self - Frank Zappa's Wife
Gail Zappa
Self - Music Producer (archive footage)
Tom Wilson
Self - Baritone Saxophone / Percusion (archive footage)
Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood
Self - Bass (archive footage)
Roy Estrada
Self - Vocal (archive footage)
Ray Collins
Self - Keyboards (archive footage)
Don Preston
Self - Drums (archive footage)
Jimmy Carl Black
Self - Percusion (archive footage) (as Art Tripp)
Arthur Dyer Tripp III
Self (archive footage)
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 - Drums (archive footage)
Aynsley Dunbar
Self - Bass (archive footage)
Jeff Simmons
Self - Keyboards / Trombone (archive footage)
George Duke
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Luc Ponty
Self (archive footage)
Yoko Ono
Self (archive footage)
John Lennon
Self - Producer, 200 Motels (archive footage) (as Jerry Good)
Jerry D. Good
Self (archive footage)
Ringo Starr
Self - Played with Zappa 1980-1982
Steve Vai
Self - Played with Zappa 1978-1979 (archive footage)
Ike Willis
Self - Animator
Bruce Bickford
Self (archive footage)
Tom Fowler
Self (archive footage) (as Napoleon Brock)
Napoleon Murphy Brock
Self (archive footage)
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 - Played with Zappa 1981-1988
Scott Thunes
Self
Joe Travers
Self (archive footage)
John Belushi
Self - Played with Zappa 1976-1984
Ray White
Self (archive footage)
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
David Harrington
Self (archive footage)
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 - PMRC Member (archive footage)
Susan Baker
Self (archive footage)
Arsenio Hall
Self (voice)
Gary Iskowitz
Self - Music Engineer (voice)
David Dondorf
Self (archive footage)
Kathleen Sullivan
Self - President of Czechoslovakia (archive footage)
Václav Havel
Self (archive footage)
Jamie Gangel
Themselves (archive footage)
Ensemble Modern
Self (archive footage)
Arthur Brown
Self
Adam Curry
Self
Hank Dutt
Self (archive footage)
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
John Sherba
Self (archive footage)
Bill Wyman
Self
Sunny Yang
Self (archive footage)
Charles Manson
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