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Bird

Release Year
1988
Runtime
2h 41m
Genres
Drama
Music
Directed By
Not Available
Bird

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 & Crew

Cast

Forest Whitaker

Charlie 'Bird' Parker

Diane Venora

Chan Parker

Michael Zelniker

Red Rodney

Samuel E. Wright

Dizzy Gillespie

Michael McGuire

Brewster

Damon Whitaker

Young Bird

Morgan Nagler

Kim

Arlen Dean Snyder

Dr. Heath

Glenn Wright

Alcoholic Patient

George Orrison

Patient with Checkers

Bill Cobbs

Dr. Caulfield

Hamilton Camp

Mayor of 52nd Street

Crew

Joel Oliansky

Screenplay

Jack N. Green

Director of Photography

Edward C. Carfagno

Production Design

Virginia Cook-McGowan

Sound Editor

Teri E. Dorman

Sound Editor

Joseph A. Ippolito

Sound Editor

Walter Newman

Sound Editor

Robert G. Henderson

Supervising Sound Editor

Marcia Reed

Still Photographer

Lloyd Nelson

Script Supervisor

David Valdes

Executive Producer

Phyllis Huffman

Casting

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