Uncle Meat

1987

1h 40m

5.7(6 votes)

Documentary

Overview

This is a documentary about an unfinished movie. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention try to film the sci-fi epic "Uncle Meat."

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Cast & Crew

33 members

Sound

Don Preston

Self (AKA Dom DeWilde) / Biff Debris / Uncle Meat

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Frank Zappa

Self / The Imaginary Director

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Phyllis Smith Altenhaus

Self / Sheba Flieschman (as Phyllis Altenhaus)

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Dick Barber

Self

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Massimo Bassoli

Adult Minnesota Tishman

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Rodney Bingenheimer

Self

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Jimmy Carl Black

Self

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Aynsley Dunbar

Self / Biff Junior

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Roy Estrada

Self

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Francesca Fisher

The Countess

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Bunk Gardner

Self

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Buzz Gardner

Self

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Lowell George

Self

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Dick Kunc

Self

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Manfred Lerch

Self

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C. Mercedes Lewis

Girl Who Was A Sofa

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Sal Lombardo

Self

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Meredith Monk

Red Face Girl

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Billy Mundi

Rollo

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Janet Neville-Ferguson

Self / Market Clerk

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Lucy Offerall

Self / Market Clerk (as Miss Lucy)

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Fritz Rau

Self

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Linda Ronstadt

Self

Directing

Carl Schenkel

Self

Acting

Cal Schenkel

Self

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Stumuk

Elderly Biff Debris

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Arthur Dyer Tripp III

Self

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Ian Underwood

Self

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Camera

Haskell Wexler

Self

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Tom Wilson

Self

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Annie Zannas

Self

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Ray Collins

Self / Bill Yurds

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Carlo Zappavigna

Young Minnesota Tishman

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