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