Zappa

Movie genre: Music Documentary

Movie Budget: $1,126,036.00

27-Nov-2020

129 min

7.3/10 (68)

English

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.

Movie tag line: "Save the Vault. Tell the Story."

Production companies:

Trouper Productions

Zipper Bros Films

Altitude Film Entertainment

Magnolia Pictures

Cast & Crew

Frank Zappa

Character: Self (archive footage)

Mike Keneally

Character: Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988

Pamela Des Barres

Character: Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs

Lonnie Lardner

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

Patrice Zappa

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

Rose Zappa

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

Francis Zappa

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

Edgard Varèse

Character: Self (archive footage)

Don Van Vliet

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

The Mothers of Invention

Character: Themselves (archive footage)

Johnny Guitar Watson

Character: Self (archive footage)

Pamela Zarubica

Character: Self - Zappa's Roommate

Carlo Zappavigna

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

Bunk Gardner

Character: Self - Played with Zappa 1966-1969

Ian Underwood

Character: Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975

Ruth Underwood

Character: Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1976

Gail Zappa

Character: Self - Frank Zappa's Wife

Tom Wilson

Character: Self - Music Producer (archive footage)

Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood

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

Roy Estrada

Character: Self - Bass (archive footage)

Ray Collins

Character: Self - Vocal (archive footage)

Don Preston

Character: Self - Keyboards (archive footage)

Jimmy Carl Black

Character: Self - Drums (archive footage)

Arthur Dyer Tripp III

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

Cal Schenkel

Character: Self (archive footage)

Jimi Hendrix

Character: Self (archive footage)

Moon Unit Zappa

Character: Self (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

Character: Self (archive footage)

Nancy Reagan

Character: Self (archive footage)

David Bowie

Character: Self (archive footage)

Mick Jagger

Character: Self (archive footage)

Joni Mitchell

Character: Self (archive footage)

Dweezil Zappa

Character: Self (archive footage)

Alice Cooper

Character: Self (archive footage)

Howard Kaylan

Character: Self (archive footage)

Mark Volman

Character: Self (archive footage)

Aynsley Dunbar

Character: Self - Drums (archive footage)

Jeff Simmons

Character: Self - Bass (archive footage)

George Duke

Character: Self - Keyboards / Trombone (archive footage)

Jean-Luc Ponty

Character: Self (archive footage)

Yoko Ono

Character: Self (archive footage)

John Lennon

Character: Self (archive footage)

Jerry D. Good

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

Ringo Starr

Character: Self (archive footage)

Steve Vai

Character: Self - Played with Zappa 1980-1982

Ike Willis

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

Bruce Bickford

Character: Self - Animator

Tom Fowler

Character: Self (archive footage)

Napoleon Murphy Brock

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

Ralph Humphrey

Character: Self (archive footage)

Chester Thompson

Character: Self (archive footage)

Bruce Fowler

Character: Self (archive footage)

Terry Bozzio

Character: Self (archive footage)

Tommy Mars

Character: Self (archive footage)

Adrian Belew

Character: Self (archive footage)

Scott Thunes

Character: Self - Played with Zappa 1981-1988

Joe Travers

Character: Self

John Belushi

Character: Self (archive footage)

Ray White

Character: Self - Played with Zappa 1976-1984

Arthur Barrow

Character: Self (archive footage)

Vinnie Colaiuta

Character: Self (archive footage)

Diva Zappa

Character: Self (archive footage)

Sandi Freeman

Character: Self (archive footage)

Mike Douglas

Character: Self (archive footage)

Norman Seeff

Character: Self (archive footage)

David Harrington

Character: Self

Robin Denselow

Character: Self (archive footage)

Kent Nagano

Character: Self (archive footage)

David Letterman

Character: Self (archive footage)

Ahmet Zappa

Character: Self (archive footage)

Pierre Boulez

Character: Self (archive footage)

David Raksin

Character: Self (archive footage)

Ted Koppel

Character: Self (archive footage)

Susan Baker

Character: Self - PMRC Member (archive footage)

Arsenio Hall

Character: Self (archive footage)

Gary Iskowitz

Character: Self (voice)

David Dondorf

Character: Self - Music Engineer (voice)

Kathleen Sullivan

Character: Self (archive footage)

Václav Havel

Character: Self - President of Czechoslovakia (archive footage)

Jamie Gangel

Character: Self (archive footage)

Ensemble Modern

Character: Themselves (archive footage)

Arthur Brown

Character: Self (archive footage)

Adam Curry

Character: Self

Hank Dutt

Character: Self

Buzz Gardner

Character: Self (archive footage)

Al Gore

Character: Self (archive footage)

Tipper Gore

Character: Self (archive footage)

David Harrington

Character: Self (archive footage)

Brian Jones

Character: Self (archive footage)

John Lofton

Character: Self (archive footage)

Miss Mercy

Character: Self (archive footage)

John Sherba

Character: Self

Bill Wyman

Character: Self (archive footage)

Sunny Yang

Character: Self

Charles Manson

Character: Self (archive footage)

Patrick O'Hearn

Character: Self (archive footage)

Peter Wolf

Character: Self (archive footage)

Cast & Crew

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