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.
Cast
Forest Whitaker
Charlie 'Bird' Parker
Diane Venora
Chan Parker
Michael Zelniker
Red Rodney
Samuel E. Wright
Dizzy Gillespie
Keith David
Buster Franklin
Michael McGuire
Brewster
James Handy
Esteves
Damon Whitaker
Young Bird
Morgan Nagler
Kim
Arlen Dean Snyder
Dr. Heath
Sam Robards
Moscowitz
Glenn Wright
Alcoholic Patient
George Orrison
Patient with Checkers
Bill Cobbs
Dr. Caulfield
Hamilton Camp
Mayor of 52nd Street
Chris Bosley
First Doorman
George T. Bruce
Second Doorman
Joey Green
Gene
John Witherspoon
Sid
Tony Todd
Frog
Jo De Winter
Mildred Berg
Richard Zavaglia
Ralph the Narc
Anna Thomson
Audrey
Al Pugliese
Owner - Three Deuces
Hubert Kelly
Wilson
Billy J. Mitchell
Prince
Karl Vincent
Stratton
Lou Cutell
Bride's Father
Roger Etienne
Parisian Emcee
Jason Bernard
Benny Tate
Gretchen Oehler
Southern Nurse
Richard McKenzie
Southern Doctor
Tony Cox
Pee Wee Marquette
Diane Salinger
Baroness Nica
Penelope Windust
Bellevue Nurse
Ann Weldon
Violet Wells
Crew
Clint Eastwood
Director, Producer
Joel Oliansky
Screenplay
Joel Cox
Editor
Jack N. Green
Director of Photography
David Valdes
Executive Producer
Edward C. Carfagno
Production Design
Phyllis Huffman
Casting
Robert G. Henderson
Supervising Sound Editor
Virginia Cook-McGowan
Sound Editor
Marshall Winn
Sound Editor
Teri E. Dorman
Sound Editor
David Horton Sr.
Sound Editor
Joseph A. Ippolito
Sound Editor
Walter Newman
Sound Editor
Rick Alexander
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Les Fresholtz
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Vern Poore
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Willie D. Burton
Sound Mixer
Lennie Niehaus
Original Music Composer
Marcia Reed
Still Photographer
Lloyd Nelson
Script Supervisor
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