Ian Underwood
Birthday
1939/05/22 (86 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
New York City, New York
Also know as
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Biography
Ian Robertson Underwood (born May 22, 1939) is a woodwind and keyboards player, who was a member of the original version of Frank Zappa's band the Mothers of Invention. Following the original band's split in late 1969, Underwood continued to work with Zappa extensively during the 1970s. Underwood graduated from The Choate School in 1957 and Yale University with a bachelor's degree in composition in 1961 and a master's degree in composition at UC Berkeley in 1966. He began his career by playing ...Read more
Acting
(2002) Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note
as Self
(2000) Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die
as Self
(1987) Uncle Meat
as Self
(1988) The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
as Self
(1987) Video from Hell
as Self
(1969) Burnt Weeny Sandwich
as Self
(2007) Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
as Self
(2014) Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
as Self
(2016) Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
(2020) Zappa
as Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975
(2024) Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention: Live at Whisky a Go Go 1968
as ---
(2010) Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List
as Himself
(1971) 200 Motels
as Member of Mothers of Invention
(1973) Frank Zappa: Opopoppa Stockholm, Sweden
as ---
(1997) Classic Albums
as Self