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