Director Clint Eastwood
Screenplay Joel Oliansky
Bird
Tagline: "There are no second acts in American lives."
Release Date: 1988-06-01
Duration: 161 minutes
Synopsis
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Casting
- Keith DavidBuster Franklin
- Forest WhitakerCharlie 'Bird' Parker
- Diane VenoraChan Parker
- Bill CobbsDr. Caulfield
- Anna ThomsonAudrey
- Tony CoxPee Wee Marquette
- Samuel E. WrightDizzy Gillespie
- Tony ToddFrog
- James HandyEsteves
- John WitherspoonSid
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