Bird
1988-06-01Saxophone 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.

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.

Charlie 'Bird' Parker
Forest Whitaker

Chan Parker
Diane Venora

Red Rodney
Michael Zelniker

Dizzy Gillespie
Samuel E. Wright

Buster Franklin
Keith David

Brewster
Michael McGuire

Esteves
James Handy

Young Bird
Damon Whitaker

Kim
Morgan Nagler

Dr. Heath
Arlen Dean Snyder

Moscowitz
Sam Robards
Alcoholic Patient
Glenn Wright

Patient with Checkers
George Orrison

Dr. Caulfield
Bill Cobbs

Mayor of 52nd Street
Hamilton Camp
First Doorman
Chris Bosley
Second Doorman
George T. Bruce

Gene
Joey Green

Sid
John Witherspoon

Frog
Tony Todd

Mildred Berg
Jo De Winter
Ralph the Narc
Richard Zavaglia

Audrey
Anna Thomson

Owner - Three Deuces
Al Pugliese
Wilson
Hubert Kelly

Prince
Billy J. Mitchell
Stratton
Karl Vincent

Bride's Father
Lou Cutell
Parisian Emcee
Roger Etienne

Benny Tate
Jason Bernard
Southern Nurse
Gretchen Oehler

Southern Doctor
Richard McKenzie

Pee Wee Marquette
Tony Cox

Baroness Nica
Diane Salinger
Bellevue Nurse
Penelope Windust

Violet Wells
Ann Weldon