Allen Ginsberg

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1926-06-03

Deathday 1997-04-05 (70 years old)

Place of Birth Newark, New Jersey, USA

Also Known As Irwin Allen Ginsberg, Alan Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

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.​

Known For

Actor

2024
A Supermarket in Californi

as original recording

2023
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

as Self (archive footage)

2021
The Velvet Underground

as Self (archive footage)

2020
Symphony Of The Invisible

as Himself (voice)

2020
70 Years of Youth Revolt

as Self (archive footage)

2018
Take Your Pills

as Self (archive footage)

2017
How the Beatles Changed the World

as Self (archive footage)

2017
Uncle Howard

as Self (archive footage)

2015
Don't Blink - Robert Frank

as Self (archive footage)

2014
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain

as Self (archive footage)

2014
Beat Generation

as Self (archive footage)

2012
The Beat Hotel

as Self (archival)

2010
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

as Self (archive footage)

2010
Howl

as Himself

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)

2006
2004
2003
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

as Self (archive footage)

2002
The Cockettes

as Self (archive footage)

2002
American Magus

as Himself

1999
The Source

as Self

1999
New York: A Documentary Film

as Self - Commentator

1998
Brakhage

as Himself

1997
1997
1997
1995
Van Gogh's Ear

as Himself

1994
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

as Himself (archive footage)

1994
ChickenHawk

as Himself

1993
Road Scholar

as Self

1990
Silence = Death

as Himself

1989
1986
1985
All Star Video

as Self (archive footage)

1984
Before Stonewall

as Himself

1980
1978
Thot-Fal'N

as Himself

1978
Renaldo and Clara

as The Father

1976
1974
Suite 212

as Self

1973
Ciao! Manhattan

as Himself

1969
1968
Yippie

as Himself

1968
1968
1968
Chicago

as Himself

1968
The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

1967
1967
Herostratus

as Poet (voice)

1967
Don't Look Back

as Self (uncredited)

1967
Hare Krishna

as Himself

1967
1966
Galaxie

as Himself

1966
Chappaqua

as Messiah

1965
Wholly Communion

as Himself

1965
1964
Couch

as Himself

1961
Guns of the Trees

as Self (voice)

1959

Crew

2013
Tropico

as Poem

1969

Writer

Director

1968
Yippie

as Director