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.
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)
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