- Bird (film)
Infobox Film
name = Bird
caption =film poster byBill Gold
director =Clint Eastwood
producer =Clint Eastwood David Valdes
writer =Joel Oliansky
narrator =
starring =Forest Whitaker Diane Venora Michael Zelniker Sam Wright Keith David
music =Lennie Niehaus
cinematography =Jack N. Green
editing =Joel Cox
distributor =Warner Bros. Pictures
released =September 30 , 1988
runtime = 161 min.
country = flagicon|USAUnited States
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
website =
amg_id = 1:5713
imdb_id = 0094747"Bird" is an Academy Award-winning 1988 U.S.
film directed byClint Eastwood .The film is a biopic, a tribute to the life and music of
jazz saxophonistCharlie Parker , written byJoel Oliansky . It is constructed as acollage of scenes from Parker's life, from his childhood in Kansas City, through his marriage to Chan Richardson, to his early death at the age of thirty-four.In the middle of the 1980s, Charlie Parker's friend and colleague
Teddy Edwards shared his reminiscences of the saxophonist to director and screenwriter Joe Oliansky, who had wanted to make a bio-pic about Charlie Parker starring actorRichard Pryor " [http://www.artistinterviews.eu/?page_id=7&parent_id=22| Interview with Teddy Edwards on ArtistInterviews] ] ". The production was postponed continuously, until the producer/actor Clint Eastwood took over the film project.Forrest Whitaker 's performance as Parker earned him the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Globe nomination. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_Whitaker] In addition, the film also won an Academy Award for Best Sound.Cast
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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
*Penelope Windust — Bellevue Nurse
*Glenn Wright — Alcoholic Patient (as Glenn T. Wright)
*George Orrison — Patient with Checkers
*Bill Cobbs — Dr CaulfieldReferences
External links
*imdb title|id=0094747|title=Bird
*amg title|id=1:5713|title=Bird
* [http://www.clinteastwood.net/welcome2.html "Bird"] — from ClintEastwood.net
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