Allen Ginsberg
Born: 1926-06-03 in Newark, New Jersey, USA
Died: 1997-04-05
Known For: Acting
Biography
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allen Ginsberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2026
- May Day x 4 as Self
- Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC as Self
- Nova '78 as Self (archive footage)
- ALLEN & AI
2025
- One to One: John & Yoko as Self (archive footage)
- John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office as Self (archive footage)
- castelporziano ostia dei poeti as Self - poet
2024
- Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri as Self (archive footage)
- A Supermarket in California as Self (voice) (archive)
2023
- Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV as Self (archive footage)
2022
- Why Is We Americans? as Self (archive footage)
2021
- The Velvet Underground as Self (archive footage)
2020
- 70 Years of Youth Revolt as Self (archive footage)
- Symphony Of The Invisible as Self (voice) (archive)
2019
- Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese as The Oracle of Delphi
2018
- Take Your Pills as Self (archive footage)
- A Walking Tour of the East Village 1985 as Self
2017
- How the Beatles Changed the World as Self (archive footage)
- Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel as Self (archive footage)
2015
- Don't Blink - Robert Frank as Self (archive footage)
- A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
- William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine as Self (archive footage)
2014
- Beat Generation as Self (archive footage)
- The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain as Self (archive footage)
- Great Poets: In Their Own Words as Self (archive footage)
2012
- Norman Mailer: The American as Self (archive footage)
- The Beat Hotel as Self (archive footage)
2011
- Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche as Self (archive footage)
2010
- Howl as Self
- William S. Burroughs: A Man Within as Self (archive footage)
2009
- Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder as Self (archive footage)
2008
- Tim Leary: The Art of Dying as Self (archive footage)
- Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell as Self (archive footage)
2007
- The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music as Self (archive footage)
- 65 Revisited as Self (archive footage)
2006
- To John With Love as Self (archive footage)
- Poets at the Living Theater as Self (archive footage)
- Allen Ginsberg Sings Blues
2005
- No Direction Home: Bob Dylan as Self
2004
- Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair as Self (archive footage)
2003
- The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' as Self (archive footage)
2002
- The Cockettes as Self (archive footage)
- American Magus as Self (archive footage)
2000
- As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty as Self (archive footage)
- Condo Painting as Self (archive footage)
1999
- New York as Self - Commentator
- The Source as Self (archive footage)
- Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles as Self (archive footage)
1998
- Brakhage as Self (archive footage)
1997
- Good Will Hunting ... (In Memory Of)
- Birth of a Nation as Self
- A Poet from the Lower East Side as Self
- On the Road to Desolation as Self (archive footage)
- Happy Birthday to John as Self
- Ballad of the Skeletons as Self
- U2: A Year in Pop as Self
- No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg as Self (archive footage)
- Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit as Self
1995
- Van Gogh's Ear as Self
1994
- The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg as Self (archive footage)
- Jonas in the Desert as Self
- Moving Pictures as Self
- Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys as Self
- An Autumn Wind as Self
1993
- Road Scholar as Self
1990
- Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections as Self
- Berkeley in the Sixties as Self
- Silence = Death as Self
1989
- Heavy Petting as Self
- Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets as Self
- Growing Up in America as Self
- Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center as Self
1988
- Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman as Self
1987
- It Was Twenty Years Ago Today as Self
1986
- He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life as Self (archive footage)
- Autumn Ritual as Self
- Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank as Self
1985
- It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen as Lawyer
- All Star Video as Self (archive footage)
1984
- Burroughs: The Movie as Self
- Good Morning, Mr. Orwell as Self
- Before Stonewall as Self
- Ginsberg/Corso Tapes as Self
1983
- This Song for Jack as Self
1982
- Poetry in Motion as Self
- Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint as Self
1981
- Greetings from Washington, D.C. as Self
1980
- The Beats: An Existential Comedy
- No. 18: Mahagonny as Self
- La marche gaie as Self
- Lake Placid '80 as Self
1979
- Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds as Self
- Gay March on Washington as Self
1978
- Renaldo and Clara as The Father
- Thot-Fal'N as Self
1977
- Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration as Self
1976
1974
- Suite 212 as Self
1973
- We Can't Go Home Again as Allen
- Ciao! Manhattan as Self
- Pickup's Tricks as Self
- Global Groove as Self
1971
1969
- Me and My Brother as Self
- Bed Peace as Self
- The Fall as Self
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches as Self (archive footage)
- Chicago as Self
- Underground New York as Self
- A.G. as Self
- Yippie as Self
1967
- Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back as Self (uncredited)
- Tonite Let's All Make Love in London as Self
- Herostratus as Poet (voice)
- Hare Krishna as Self
- Ah, Sunflower as Self
- Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out as Self (archive footage)
- Anatomy of Violence as Self
- Joan of Arc as Self
- Be-In as Self
1965
- Andy Warhol Screen Tests as Self
- Dylan Speaks as Self (archive footage)
- He! Viva Dada as Self
- Wholly Communion as Self
- Allan for Allan as Self
1964
1961
- Guns of the Trees as Self (voice)
1959
- Pull My Daisy as Alan