Ian Underwood
Sound
15
Acting Credits
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 ...
Known For
Classic Albums
Self
Zappa
Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
Self
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
Self (archive footage)
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
Self
200 Motels
Member of Mothers of Invention
Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List
Himself
Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note
Self
Filmography
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention: Live at Whisky a Go Go 1968
2024
Zappa
2020
as Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
2016
as Self (archive footage)
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
2014
as Self
Frank Zappa: The Freak Out List
2010
as Himself
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
2007
as Self
Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note
2002
as Self
Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die
2000
as Self
Classic Albums
1997
as Self
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1988
as Self
Uncle Meat
1987
as Self
Video from Hell
1987
as Self
Frank Zappa: Opopoppa Stockholm, Sweden
1973
200 Motels
1971
as Member of Mothers of Invention
Burnt Weeny Sandwich
1969
as Self