Actor
Frank Zappa
Biography

Frank Vincent Zappa  (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more than 60 albums he released with the band The Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. While in his t ...

Known For
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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

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Live at Whisky a Go Go 1968

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Cover Your Ears

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Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary

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Rock this Town

Acting
2025 -- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music | Self (archive footage)
2024 -- Live at Whisky a Go Go 1968 |
2023 -- Cover Your Ears | Self - Musician (archive footage)
2022 -- Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary | Self (archive footage)
2022 -- Rock this Town | Self (archive footage)
2021 -- Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff | Self (archive footage)
2021 -- The Velvet Underground | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021 -- Classic Albums: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out! | Self
2021 -- The Art of Dissent | Self - Subject (archive footage)
2021 -- Larry Flynt for President | Self (archive footage)
2020 -- Zappa | Self (archive footage)
2019 -- Stupor Mundi: Livre 3, La plus dangereuse rencontre | Self (archive footage)
2019 -- Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice | Self (archive footage)
2019 -- Manson: Music From an Unsound Mind | Self (archive footage)
2019 -- Echo in the Canyon | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018 -- Marian Briozzo | Himself (archive footage)
2018 -- Take Your Pills | Self (archive footage)
2017 -- Uncle Howard | Self (archive footage)
2016 -- Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words | Self (archive footage)
2016 -- Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne | Self (archive footage)
2016 -- Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape | Self (archive footage)
2016 -- Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - The Lost Broadcast: The Beat Club '68 | Self
2016 -- Zapped: Frank Zappa par Frank Zappa | Self - Subject (archive footage)
2015 -- Roxy: The Movie | Himself
2015 -- Feats First: The Life and Music of Lowell George | Self (archive footage)
2014 -- Led Zeppelin Played Here | Self (archive footage)
2014 -- Frank Zappa - Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily | Himself (archive Footage)
2014 -- Made in Japan: The Rise of Deep Purple Mk II | Himself (archive footage)
2014 -- Cheepnis | Himself
2014 -- Super Duper Alice Cooper | Self (archive footage)
2013 -- Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme | Himself
2012 -- From Straight to Bizarre | Self
2010 -- Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List | Himself
2010 -- Hart & Soul - The Hart Family Anthology | Self (archive footage)
2009 -- Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: In the 1960's | Himself
2008 -- Frank Zappa - Live in Paris 1980 | Self
2008 -- Frank Zappa: The Torture Never Stops | Self
2008 -- Frank Zappa: The Broadcast Archives | Self
2008 -- The Wrecking Crew | Self (archive footage)
2008 -- Frank Zappa: Music In Review | Self (archive footage)
2007 -- Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation | Self (archive footage)
2007 -- Frank Zappa: A Pioneer of the Future of Music |
2006 -- Fuck | Self (archive footage)
2006 -- EAV Rarities | Self (archive footage)
2005 -- Frank Zappa: A Token of His Extreme | Himself
2005 -- Derailroaded | Self (archive footage)
2004 -- Frank Zappa - John, Dan And Me | Himself
2002 -- Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s | Self (archive footage)
2002 -- Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note | Self (archive footage)
2000 -- Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die | Self (archive footage)
1997 -- The Artist Formerly Known As Captain Beefheart | Himself (archive footage)
1997 -- Porridge and kerosene | Self (archive footage)
1997 -- Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees | Mike Nesmith (archive footage)
1994 -- An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa | Self (archive footage)
1993 -- The Revenge of the Dead Indians | Himself
1993 -- A Life of Extravaganza - The Genius Frank Zappa | Self
1992 -- The Yellow Shark | Self
1991 -- Pražákům, těm je hej | Frank Zappa
1991 -- Tom Arnold: The Naked Truth | Self
1991 -- Your vote | Self
1991 -- Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko | Self
1989 -- Decade | Self
1989 -- Služební cesta podporučíka Svěráka | Self (archive footage)
1988 -- Funny | Self
1988 -- Frank Zappa: Live in Barcelona |
1988 -- The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels | Self
1987 -- Video From Hell | Self
1987 -- Uncle Meat | Self / The Imaginary Director
1987 -- The Amazing Mr. Bickford | Self
1985 -- Night Flight with Frank Zappa, Porn Wars | Self
1985 -- Frank Zappa: Does Humor Belong in Music? | Self
1984 -- The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers | Attila
1983 -- Cocaine Blues | Himself
1982 -- Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special! | Self
1982 -- The Rolling Stones - The First 20 Years | Self
1980 -- Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere | Self
1979 -- Baby Snakes | Self
1978 -- Frank Zappa: We Don't Mess Around | Self
1973 -- Frank Zappa - Over-Nite Sensation |
1972 -- Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here | Self
1972 -- Deep Purple: Made In Japan | Self (archive footage)
1971 -- Frank Zappa filmt 200 Motels | Self
1971 -- 200 Motels | Member of Mothers of Invention (uncredited)
1971 -- Frank Zappa | Self
1970 -- Pink Floyd: Amougies Pop Festival |
1970 -- Amougies (Music Power - European Music Revolution) | Self
1969 -- Burnt Weeny Sandwich | Self
1968 -- Head | The Critic
1968 -- All My Loving | Self
1968 -- You Are What You Eat |
1967 -- Mondo Hollywood |
1967 -- Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution | Self
1967 -- Sex in Today's World | Self
1965 -- The Big T.N.T. Show | Self (uncredited)
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