Alan Watts
Born: 1915-01-06 in Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
Died: 1973-11-16
Known For: Acting
Biography
Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularising Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
Filmography
2024
- The Monkey Conflict as Storyteller
- The Great Stream ... (Original Story)
2020
- Until There Was Nothing as Narrator
2018
- Play as Self (voice recording)
2017
- Everything as Narrator (archive footage)
2016
- Zen Dog as Alan Watts (voice)
1994
- Zen: The Best of Alan Watts as Himself
1973
- Work as Play as Himself
1972
- The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts as Alan Watts
- Conversation with Myself as Himself
- Time and the More It Changes as Self
1971
- The Art of Meditation as Himself
1969
- The Flow of Zen as Narrator
- Zen and Now as Narrator
1968
- Buddhism, Man and Nature as Narrator
1959
- Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life as Alan Watts