Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Birthdate
June 3, 1926 (97 years old)
Place of Birth
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Date of Death
April 5, 1997
Known For
Acting

Details

Birthdate
June 3, 1926 (97 years old)
Place of Birth
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Date of Death
April 5, 1997
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.

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Allen Ginsberg's LGBTQ+ Titles

Howl
Howl
Himself
Before Stonewall
Before Stonewall
Himself

Acting (112)

2024
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri as Self
2023
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV as Self (archive footage)
2022
Why Is We Americans? as Self
2021
The Velvet Underground as Self (archive footage)
2020
70 Years of Youth Revolt as Self (archive footage) (1 episode)
2020
Symphony Of The Invisible as Himself (voice)
2019
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese as The Oracle of Delphi
2018
Take Your Pills as Self (archive footage)
2017
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
2017
How the Beatles Changed the World as Self (archive footage)
2017
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography as Self (archive footage)
2017
Don't Blink: Robert Frank as Self (archive footage)
2017
Uncle Howard as Self (archive footage)
2014
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain as Self (archive footage)
2014
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
2014
Beat Generation as Self (archive footage)
2012
Norman Mailer: The American as Self
2012
The Beat Hotel as Self (archival)
2011
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
2010
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within as Self (archive footage)
2010
Howl as Himself
2009
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder as Himself
2008
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell as Self (archive footage)
2008
Chicago 10 as Self (archive footage)
2007
65 Revisited as Self (archive footage)
2007
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out as Himself (Archive Footage)
2007
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music as Self (archive footage)
2006
Dylan Speaks 1965 as Self
2005
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan as Self
2004
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair as Himself (archive footage)
2003
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' as Self (archive footage)
2002
The Cockettes as Self (archive footage)
2002
American Magus as Himself
2001
New York in the Fifties as Self
2000
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty as Self
2000
Condo Painting
1999
New York: A Documentary Film as Self - Commentator (2 episodes)
1999
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles as Himself
1999
The Source as Self
1998
Brakhage as Himself
1997
No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg as Self (archive footage)
1997
Ballad of the Skeletons
1997
Happy Birthday to John as Himself
1997
Birth of a Nation as Self
1997
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit as Himself
1997
U2: A Year in Pop as Himself
1997
A Poet from the Lower East Side as Himself
1995
Van Gogh's Ear as Himself
1994
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg as Himself (archive footage)
1994
ChickenHawk as Himself
1994
Jonas in the Desert as Self
1993
Road Scholar as Self
1990
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections as Self
1990
Berkeley in the Sixties as Self
1990
Silence = Death as Himself
1990
Summer of Love
1989
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center as himself
1989
Heavy Petting as Self
1989
Growing Up in America as Self
1989
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets as Himself
1986
Autumn Ritual as Self
1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life as Self
1986
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank as Himself
1985
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen as Lawyer
1985
All Star Video as Self (archive footage)
1984
Before Stonewall as Himself
1984
Burroughs: The Movie as Self
1984
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell as Self
1983
This Song for Jack
1982
Poetry in Motion
1982
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint
1981
Greetings from Washington, D.C. as Himself
1980
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980
La marche gaie as Self
1980
Lake Placid '80
1979
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds as Himself
1978
Thot-Fal'N as Himself
1978
Renaldo and Clara as The Father
1977
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration as Self
1976
Lost, Lost, Lost as Self
1974
Suite 212 as Self
1973
We Can't Go Home Again as Allen
1973
Ciao! Manhattan as Himself
1973
Global Groove
1973
Pickup's Tricks
1971
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family as Self
1971
Johnny Minotaur
1969
Me and My Brother as Himself
1969
The Fall
1968
Yippie as Himself
1968
The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest (1 episode)
1968
A.G.
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches as Self
1968
Underground New York as Himself
1967
Joan of Arc
1967
Anatomy of Violence as Self
1967
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London as Himself
1967
Ah, Sunflower as Self
1967
Herostratus as Poet (voice)
1967
Bob Dylan - Dont Look Back as Self (uncredited)
1967
Hare Krishna as Himself
1967
Be-In
1966
Galaxie as Himself
1966
Chappaqua as Messiah
1965
Wholly Communion as Himself
1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests as Self
1965
Allan for Allan
1965
He! Viva Dada as Self
1964
Couch as Himself
1964
Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
1961
Guns of the Trees as Self (voice)
1959
Pull My Daisy as Alan

Directing (1)

1968
Yippie • Director
• Director

Writing (1)

1997
Ballad of the Skeletons • Writer
• Writer

Sound (2)

1997
Ballad of the Skeletons • Music
• Music
1979
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds • Other
• Other

Crew (2)

2013
Tropico • Poem
• Poem
1969
Me and My Brother • Poem
• Poem