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Bird Cast & Characters

R 1988 · 2h 41m 69 Audience

Available on Apple TV

Starring Cast

Key crew

Director

Clint Eastwood

Screenplay

Joel Oliansky

Producers

Clint Eastwood , David Valdes

Music

Lennie Niehaus

Cinematography

Jack N. Green

Editor

Joel Cox

Production design

Edward C. Carfagno

Casting

Phyllis Huffman

Full cast

36 cast members

Forest Whitaker

Charlie 'Bird' Parker

Michael Zelniker

Samuel E. Wright

Dizzy Gillespie

Buster Franklin

Michael McGuire

Arlen Dean Snyder

Alcoholic Patient

Patient with Checkers

Mayor of 52nd Street

Chris Bosley

First Doorman

George T. Bruce

Second Doorman

John Witherspoon

Richard Zavaglia

Owner - Three Deuces

Billy J. Mitchell

Gretchen Oehler

Richard McKenzie

Southern Doctor

Pee Wee Marquette

Penelope Windust

Crew by department

35 crew members

Directing

Tony Rivetti Sr.

First Assistant Camera

Director of Photography

L. Dean Jones Jr.

First Assistant Director

Tena Psyche Yatroussis

Second Assistant Director

Writing

Production

Executive Producer

Unit Production Manager

Camera

Norman G. Langley

Camera Operator

Still Photographer

Karina Simmons

Second Assistant Camera

Leroy Hershkowitz

Chief Lighting Technician

Chief Lighting Technician

Editing

Sound

Willie D. Burton

David Horton Sr.

Joseph A. Ippolito

Virginia Cook-McGowan

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Robert G. Henderson

Supervising Sound Editor

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Music

Music Supervisor

Original Music Composer

Art

Thomas L. Roysden

Edward C. Carfagno

Production Design

Visual Effects

Special Effects

Casting

Phyllis Huffman

Other

Script Supervisor