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 t…
Known For
Good Will Hunting
In Memory Of
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Self
Dont Look Back
Self (uncredited)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Oracle of Delphi
Howl
Self
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Self (archive footage)
Take Your Pills
Self (archive footage)
The Velvet Underground
Self (archive footage)
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Filmography
Acting (130)
Movies (127)
One to One: John & Yoko
2025as Self (archive footage)
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025as Self - poet
Nova '78
2025as Self (archive footage)
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
2025as Self (archive footage)
A Supermarket in Californi
2024as Self (voice) (archive)
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2024as Self (archive footage)
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023as Self (archive footage)
Why Is We Americans?
2022as Self (archive footage)
The Velvet Underground
2021as Self (archive footage)
Symphony Of The Invisible
2020as Self (voice) (archive)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019as The Oracle of Delphi
Take Your Pills
2018as Self (archive footage)
A Walking Tour of the East Village 1985
2018as Self
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
2017as Self (archive footage)
How the Beatles Changed the World
2017as Self (archive footage)
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
2015as Self (archive footage)
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
2015as Self (archive footage)
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
2014as Self (archive footage)
Beat Generation
2014as Self (archive footage)
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
2014as Self (archive footage)
Norman Mailer: The American
2012as Self (archive footage)
The Beat Hotel
2012as Self (archive footage)
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
2011as Self (archive footage)
Howl
2010as Self
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010as Self (archive footage)
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009as Self (archive footage)
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
2008as Self (archive footage)
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
2008as Self (archive footage)
65 Revisited
2007as Self (archive footage)
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
2007as Self (archive footage)
To John With Love
2006as Self (archive footage)
Poets at the Living Theater
2006as Self (archive footage)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005as Self
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
2004as Self (archive footage)
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
2003as Self (archive footage)
The Cockettes
2002as Self (archive footage)
American Magus
2002as Self (archive footage)
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000as Self (archive footage)
Condo Painting
2000as Self (archive footage)
The Source
1999as Self (archive footage)
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
1999as Self (archive footage)
Brakhage
1998as Self (archive footage)
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997as Self
A Poet from the Lower East Side
1997as Self
On the Road to Desolation
1997as Self (archive footage)
No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
1997as Self (archive footage)
Happy Birthday to John
1997as Self
U2: A Year in Pop
1997as Self
Ballad of the Skeletons
1997as Self (archive footage)
Birth of a Nation
1997as Self
Van Gogh's Ear
1995as Self
Jonas in the Desert
1994as Self
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
1994as Self (archive footage)
Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys
1994as Self
Moving Pictures
1994as Self
An Autumn Wind
1994as Self
Road Scholar
1993as Self
Berkeley in the Sixties
1990as Self
Summer of Love
1990as Self
Silence = Death
1990as Self
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
1990as Self
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
1989as Self
Heavy Petting
1989as Self
Growing Up in America
1989as Self
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
1989as Self
Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman
1988as Self
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986as Self (archive footage)
Autumn Ritual
1986as Self
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
1986as Self
All Star Video
1985as Self (archive footage)
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
1985as Lawyer
Before Stonewall
1984as Self
Burroughs: The Movie
1984as Self
Ginsberg/Corso Tapes
1984as Self
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
1984as Self
This Song for Jack
1983as Self
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint
1982as Self
Poetry in Motion
1982as Self
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
1981as Self
La marche gaie
1980as Self
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980as Self
Lake Placid '80
1980as Self
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979as Self
Gay March on Washington
1979as Self
Renaldo and Clara
1978as The Father
Thot-Fal'N
1978as Self
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
1977as Self
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976as Self
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades
1976
Suite 212
1974as Self
Ciao! Manhattan
1973as Self
We Can't Go Home Again
1973as Allen
Pickup's Tricks
1973as Self
Global Groove
1973as Self
Johnny Minotaur
1971
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
1971as Self
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
1971as Self
Bed Peace
1969as Self
Me and My Brother
1969as Self
The Fall
1969as Self
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968as Self (archive footage)
Chicago
1968as Self
Yippie
1968as Self
A.G.
1968as Self
Underground New York
1968as Self
Joan of Arc
1967as Self
Anatomy of Violence
1967as Self
Herostratus
1967as Poet (voice)
Dont Look Back
1967as Self (uncredited)
Be-In
1967as Self
Hare Krishna
1967as Self
Ah, Sunflower
1967as Self
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967as Self
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
1967as Self (archive footage)
Galaxie
1966as Self
Chappaqua
1966as Messiah
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965as Self
Allan for Allan
1965as Self
Wholly Communion
1965as Self
Dylan Speaks
1965as Self (archive footage)
He! Viva Dada
1965as Self
Couch
1964as Self
Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
1964
Guns of the Trees
1961as Self (voice)
Pull My Daisy
1959as Alan
The Beats: An Existential Comedy
Crew (10)
Movies (10)
A Supermarket in Californi
2024Screenplay
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
2017Vocals
Good Will Hunting
1997In Memory Of
Ballad of the Skeletons
1997Original Music Composer
Ballad of the Skeletons
1997Writer
An Autumn Wind
1994Poem
An Autumn Wind
1994Writer
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979Other
Me and My Brother
1969Poem
Yippie
1968Director
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