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Frank Zappa Acting Filmography (97)

Frank Zappa: Cheaper Than Cheep
2025·Self (guitar, vocals)
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025·Self (archive footage)
Nova '78
2025·Self (archive footage)
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention: Live at Whisky a Go Go 1968
2024
Cover Your Ears
2023·Self - Musician (archive footage)
Rock this Town
2022·Self (archive footage)
Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary
2022·Self (archive footage)
Larry Flynt for President
2021·Self (archive footage)
Kalvøyafestivalen - 50 år siden første riff
2021·Self (archive footage)
The Velvet Underground
2021·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Art of Dissent
2021·Self - Subject (archive footage)
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!
2021·Self
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)
Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind
2019·Self (archive footage)
Stupor Mundi: Book 3, The Most Dangerous Encounter
2019·Self (archive footage)
Take Your Pills
2018·Self (archive footage)
Marian Briozzo
2018·Himself (archive footage)
Zapped: Frank Zappa par Frank Zappa
2016·Self - Subject (archive footage)
Stupor Mundi: Livre 1, Rituel de décapitation du pape
2016·Self (archive footage)
Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne
2016·Self (archive footage)
Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - The Lost Broadcast: The Beat Club '68
2016·Self
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
2016·Self (archive footage)
Feats First: The Life and Music of Lowell George
2015·Self (archive footage)
Frank Zappa & The Mothers: Roxy: The Movie
2015·Himself
Frank Zappa – Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily
2014·Himself (archive Footage)
Cheepnis
2014·Himself
Super Duper Alice Cooper
2014·Self (archive footage)
Made in Japan: The Rise of Deep Purple Mk II
2014·Self (archive footage)
Led Zeppelin Played Here
2014·Self (archive footage)
Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme
2013·Himself
From Straight to Bizarre
2012·Self
Hart & Soul - The Hart Family Anthology
2010·Self (archive footage)
Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List
2010·Himself
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: In the 1960's
2009·Himself
Frank Zappa: The Torture Never Stops
2008·Self
Frank Zappa: Music In Review
2008·Self (archive footage)
Frank Zappa: The Broadcast Archives
2008·Self
Frank Zappa - Live in Paris 1980
2008·Self
The Wrecking Crew
2008·Self (archive footage)
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
2007·Self (archive footage)
Frank Zappa: A Pioneer of the Future of Music
2007
Frank Zappa: Roxy, 1973
2007
Fuck
2006·Self (archive footage)
EAV Rarities
2006·Self (archive footage)
Frank Zappa: A Token of His Extreme
2005·Himself
Derailroaded
2005·Self (archive footage)
Frank Zappa - John, Dan And Me
2004·Himself
Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note
2002·Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s
2002·Self (archive footage)
Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die
2000·Self (archive footage)
Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees
1997·Mike Nesmith (archive footage)
Porridge and kerosene
1997·Self (archive footage)
The Artist Formerly Known As Captain Beefheart
1997·Himself (archive footage)
An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa
1994·Self (archive footage)
A Life of Extravaganza - The Genius Frank Zappa
1993·Self
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
1993·Himself
The Yellow Shark
1992·Self
Tom Arnold: The Naked Truth
1991·Self
Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko
1991·Self
Your vote
1991·Self
Pražákům, těm je hej
1991·Frank Zappa
Služební cesta podporučíka Svěráka
1989·Self (archive footage)
Decade
1989·Self
Funny
1988·Self
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1988·Self
Frank Zappa: Live in Barcelona
1988
Video from Hell
1987·Self
The Amazing Mr. Bickford
1987·Self
Uncle Meat
1987·Self / The Imaginary Director
Frank Zappa: Does Humor Belong in Music?
1985·Self
Night Flight with Frank Zappa, Porn Wars
1985·Self
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
1984·Attila
Cocaine Blues
1983·Himself
The Rolling Stones - The First 20 Years
1982·Self
Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!
1982·Self
Frank Zappa: New York and Elsewhere
1980·Self
Frank Zappa: Baby Snakes
1979·Self
Frank Zappa: We Don't Mess Around
1978·Self
Frank Zappa: Opopoppa Stockholm, Sweden
1973
Deep Purple: Made In Japan
1972·Self (archive footage)
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
1972·Self
The Making of 200 Motels
1971·Self
200 Motels
1971·Member of Mothers of Invention (uncredited)
Frank Zappa
1971·Self
Frank Zappa, John Lennon & Yoko Ono: At Fillmore East
1971
Amougies (Music Power - European Music Revolution)
1970·Self
Pink Floyd: Amougies Pop Festival
1970
Burnt Weeny Sandwich
1969·Self
Head
1968·The Critic
All My Loving
1968·Self
You Are What You Eat
1968
Sex in Today's World
1967·Self
Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution
1967·Self
Mondo Hollywood
1967
The Big T.N.T. Show
1965·Self (uncredited)