Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.
Full Cast of Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Thomas Braden
Self (archive footage)
Paul Carman
Self (archive footage)
Angel
Self (archive footage)
Chuck Ash
Self - Pennsylvania State Police (archive footage)
Wally Bruner
Self (archive footage)
Del Casher
Self (archive footage)
Robin Denselow
Self (archive footage)
Aynsley Dunbar
Self (archive footage)
Ensemble Modern
Themselves (archive footage)
Roy Estrada
Self (archive footage)
Bruce Fowler
Self (archive footage)
Walt Fowler
Self (archive footage)
Jamie Gangel
Self (archive footage)
Bunk Gardner
Self (archive footage)
Tipper Gore
Self (archive footage)
Judy Gridley
Chorus Leader (archive footage)
Robert Hager
Self (voice) (archive footage)
Paula Fickes Hawkins
Self - US Senator (Florida) (archive footage)
Johnny Jacobs
Self (archive footage)
Howard Kaylan
Self (archive footage)
Martin Lickert
Self (archive footage)
London Symphony Orchestra
Themselves (archive footage)
John Lofton
Self (archive footage)
Ed Mann
Self (archive footage)
Bobby Martin
Self (archive footage)
Kurt McGettrick
Self (archive footage)
Keith Moon
The Hot Nun (archive footage)
Janet Neville-Ferguson
Groupie #1 (archive footage)
Robert D. Novak
Self (archive footage)
Lucy Offerall
Groupie #2 (archive footage)
Don Preston
Self (archive footage)
Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra
Themselves (archive footage)
Peter Rundel
Self (archive footage)
Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood
Self (archive footage)
Stanley Siegel
Self (archive footage)
Jeff Simmons
Self (archive footage)
Harry Smith
Self (archive footage)
John Smothers
Self (archive footage)
Scott Thunes
Self (archive footage)
Arthur Dyer Tripp III
Self (archive footage)
Ian Underwood
Self (archive footage)
Ruth Underwood
Self (archive footage)
Mark Volman
Self (archive footage)
Denny Walley
Self (archive footage)
Ray White
Self (archive footage)
Peter Wolf
Self (archive footage)
Gail Zappa
Self (archive footage)
Crew of Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
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