Frank Zappa
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1940-12-21 (53 years old)
Deathday
1993-12-04
Place of Birth
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Also known As
Zappa
FZ
Френк Заппа
法蘭克札帕
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 teens, he acquired a taste for percussion-based avant-garde composers such as Edgard Varèse and 1950s rhythm and blues music. He began writing classica...
Acting
1967
as Self
1967
2014
as Himself (archive Footage)
1987
as Self
1971
as Self
2014
as Himself
1971
as Member of Mothers of Invention (uncredited)
2008
1980
2002
as Self (archive footage)
2000
as Self (archive footage)
1969
as Self
2016
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
1997
as Mike Nesmith (archive footage)
2002
as Self (archive footage)
2006
as Self (archive footage)
1988
as Self
2014
as Self (archive footage)
2014
as Himself (archive footage)
1972
as Self (archive footage)
2006
as Self (archive footage)
2015
as Self (archive footage)
2014
as Self (archive footage)
2016
as Self (archive footage)
1968
as The Critic
2008
as Self (archive footage)
1991
as Self
1972
as Self
1982
2021
as Self (archive footage)
2019
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018
as Self (archive footage)
2019
as Self (archive footage)
1987
as Self
2007
as Self (archive footage)
1985
1985
1979
as Self
1978
1987
as Self / The Imaginary Director
2008
2008
2009
1965
as Self (uncredited)
2021
as Self (archive footage)
2021
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
as Self - Subject (archive footage)
2016
as Self (archive footage)
2019
as Self (archive footage)
2010
as Self (archive footage)
2019
as Self (archive footage)
1994
as Self (archive footage)
1982
1988
2005
as Himself
2004
as Himself
2022
as Self (archive footage)
2013
as Himself
1991
as Self
1968
as Self
1983
as Himself
1997
as Self (archive footage)
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as Guitarist (archive footage)
1993
as Himself
2022
as Self (archive footage)
1991
as Self
2012
as Self
2008
as Self (archive footage)
2015
2016
as Self (archive footage)
1971
as Self
1984
1997
as Himself (archive footage)
2018
as Himself (archive footage)
1967
1989
as Self (archive footage)
1992
as Self
1989
as Self
2005
as Self (archive footage)
2017
as Self (archive footage)
2010
as Himself
2020
as Self (archive footage)
2023
as Self - Musician (archive footage)
2025
as Self (archive footage)
1991
as Frank Zappa
2025
as Self (guitar, vocals)
Production
1971
as Director
1971
as Screenplay
1987
as Director
1987
as Writer
1985
as Director
1971
as Music
1979
as Director
1979
as Producer
1987
as Writer
1987
as Director
1991
as Music
1991
as Producer
1987
as Director
2013
as Editor
1965
as Original Music Composer
1962
as Original Music Composer
2015
as Director
2015
1979
as Music
1987
as Music
1987
as Writer
1987
as Producer
1987
as Camera Operator
2014
as Producer
2014
as Editor
2014
as Director
2014
as Music
1982
1988
as Director
1990
1992
as Conductor
1992
as Music
2008
2013
2015
1988
1988
as Producer
1988
1969
as Music
1979
as Writer
1979
as Editor
1987
as Producer
1985
as Producer
1985
1985
1987
as Music
1987
as Producer
2020
as Music
1971
as Music Arranger
2012
as Music
1993
as Music
1985
as Director
1985
2015
as Producer
1971
as Props
1982
as Director
1982
as Writer
1969
as Director
1971
as Music
1973
as Director
1973
as Writer
2007
as Director
2025
as Songs
2025
as Producer
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