Alan Watts

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1915-01-06

Deathday 1973-11-16 (58 years old)

Place of Birth Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK

Alan Watts

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.

Known For

Actor

2024
The Monkey Conflict

as Storyteller

2020
2018
Play

as Self (voice recording)

2017
Everything

as Himself

2016
Zen Dog

as Alan Watts (voice)

1973
Work as Play

as Himself

1971
1969
Flow of Zen

as Narrator

1969
Zen and Now

as Narrator

1968

Writer

2024
The Great Stream

as Original Story