Allen Ginsberg
Acting • Born 1926-06-03 – Died 1997-04-05
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.
Filmography
128 credits
The Velvet Underground
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Chappaqua
Movie • 1966
Messiah
Dont Look Back
Movie • 1967
Self (uncredited)
American Magus
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
Movie • 1981
Self
Berkeley in the Sixties
Movie • 1990
Self
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Movie • 2023
Self (archive footage)
Howl
Movie • 2010
Self
Pull My Daisy
Movie • 1959
Alan
Brakhage
Movie • 1998
Self (archive footage)
Why Is We Americans?
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Take Your Pills
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
We Can't Go Home Again
Movie • 1973
Allen
A.G.
Movie • 1968
Self
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
Movie • 1967
Self
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
Movie • 1999
Self (archive footage)
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Norman Mailer: The American
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
ChickenHawk
Movie • 1994
Self
Me and My Brother
Movie • 1969
Self
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
Movie • 1989
Self
Wholly Communion
Movie • 1965
Self
Suite 212
Movie • 1974
Self
Yippie
Movie • 1968
Self
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Movie • 1986
Self (archive footage)
The Source
Movie • 1999
Self (archive footage)
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Autumn Ritual
Movie • 1986
Self
A Poet from the Lower East Side
Movie • 1997
Self
No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
Movie • 1997
Self (archive footage)
Silence = Death
Movie • 1990
Self
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Happy Birthday to John
Movie • 1997
Self
Renaldo and Clara
Movie • 1978
The Father
The Cockettes
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage)
La marche gaie
Movie • 1980
Self
Johnny Minotaur
Movie • 1971
Ah, Sunflower
Movie • 1967
Self
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
Movie • 1979
Self
Galaxie
Movie • 1966
Self
Be-In
Movie • 1967
Self
Global Groove
Movie • 1973
Self
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Movie • 2005
Self
Herostratus
Movie • 1967
Poet (voice)
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
The Beat Hotel
Movie • 2012
Self (archive footage)
Pickup's Tricks
Movie • 1973
Self
Beat Generation
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Lost, Lost, Lost
Movie • 1976
Self
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
Movie • 1971
Self
All Star Video
Movie • 1985
Self (archive footage)
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
Movie • 1984
Self
Burroughs: The Movie
Movie • 1984
Self
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades
Movie • 1976
The Fall
Movie • 1969
Self
A Supermarket in Californi
Movie • 2024
Self (voice) (archive)
Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
Movie • 1964
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
Movie • 1967
Self (archive footage)
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
Movie • 1997
Self
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
Thot-Fal'N
Movie • 1978
Self
Lake Placid '80
Movie • 1980
Self
Birth of a Nation
Movie • 1997
Self
Dylan Speaks
Movie • 1965
Self (archive footage)
Before Stonewall
Movie • 1984
Self
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Movie • 1994
Self (archive footage)
No. 18: Mahagonny
Movie • 1980
Self
Underground New York
Movie • 1968
Self
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
He! Viva Dada
Movie • 1965
Self
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
Movie • 2003
Self (archive footage)
Poetry in Motion
Movie • 1982
Self
Ciao! Manhattan
Movie • 1973
Self
This Song for Jack
Movie • 1983
Self
Heavy Petting
Movie • 1989
Self
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
Movie • 1985
Lawyer
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Movie • 2019
The Oracle of Delphi
Couch
Movie • 1964
Self
Jonas in the Desert
Movie • 1994
Self
Hare Krishna
Movie • 1967
Self
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
Movie • 1989
Self
Joan of Arc
Movie • 1967
Self
Growing Up in America
Movie • 1989
Self
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Movie • 1965
Self
Allan for Allan
Movie • 1965
Self
How the Beatles Changed the World
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
Guns of the Trees
Movie • 1961
Self (voice)
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Movie • 1968
Self (archive footage)
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
Movie • 1990
Self
Road Scholar
Movie • 1993
Self
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
Movie • 1977
Self
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
Condo Painting
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
Symphony Of The Invisible
Movie • 2020
Self (voice) (archive)
Anatomy of Violence
Movie • 1967
Self
Ballad of the Skeletons
Movie • 1997
Self
65 Revisited
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
Van Gogh's Ear
Movie • 1995
Self
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint
Movie • 1982
Self
U2: A Year in Pop
Movie • 1997
Self
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
Movie • 1986
Self
Chicago
Movie • 1968
Self
Bed Peace
Movie • 1969
Self
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Gay March on Washington
Movie • 1979
Self
On the Road to Desolation
Movie • 1997
Self (archive footage)
Ginsberg/Corso Tapes
Movie • 1984
Self
Moving Pictures
Movie • 1994
Self
To John With Love
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
Poets at the Living Theater
Movie • 2006
Self (archive footage)
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
One to One: John & Yoko
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
Movie • 1971
Self
Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman
Movie • 1988
Self
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
Movie • 2015
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
Movie • 2025
Self - poet
Nova '78
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
An Autumn Wind
Movie • 1994
Self
The Beats: An Existential Comedy
Movie • 1980
70 Years of Youth Revolt
TV • 2020
Self (archive footage)
New York: A Documentary Film
TV • 1999
Self - Commentator
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest