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What instrument did jazz musician Charlie Parker play in Bird?
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American actor and director Clint Eastwood, 2008.
In the 1988 film Bird, which was directed by Clint Eastwood, the jazz musician Charlie Parker is portrayed by Forest Whitaker. Parker was a renowned American alto saxophonist, and the film depicts his life and career as a pioneer of the bebop jazz idiom.123