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Frank Zappa

Acting · Born December 21, 1940 · Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

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.

Movies with Frank Zappa

• Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music (2025) — Self (archive footage)
• Frank Zappa – Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily (2014) — Himself (archive Footage)
• Zappa (2020) — Self (archive footage)
• Echo in the Canyon (2019) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2019) — Self (archive footage)
• Super Duper Alice Cooper (2014) — Self (archive footage)
• Nova '78 (2026) — Self (archive footage)
• Hart & Soul - The Hart Family Anthology (2010) — Self (archive footage)
• Head (1968) — The Critic
• The Velvet Underground (2021) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Led Zeppelin Played Here (2014) — Self (archive footage)
• Fuck (2006) — Self (archive footage)