
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.
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Acting (109 movies)

The Velvet Underground
2021

Chappaqua
1966

Dont Look Back
1967

American Magus
2002

Greetings from Washington, D.C.
1981

Berkeley in the Sixties
1990

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023

Howl
2010

Pull My Daisy
1959

Brakhage
1998

Why Is We Americans?
2022

Take Your Pills
2018

We Can't Go Home Again
1973

A.G.
1968

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
2008

Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
1999

Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
2011

Norman Mailer: The American
2012

ChickenHawk
1994

Me and My Brother
1969

Wholly Communion
1965

Suite 212
1974

Yippie
1968

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986

The Source
1999

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009

A Poet from the Lower East Side
1997

No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
1997

Silence = Death
1990

Great Poets: In Their Own Words
2014

Happy Birthday to John
1997

Renaldo and Clara
1978

The Cockettes
2002

La marche gaie
1980

Johnny Minotaur
1971

Ah, Sunflower
1967

Galaxie
1966

Be-In
1967

Global Groove
1973

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005

Herostratus
1967

The Beat Hotel
2012

Pickup's Tricks
1973

Beat Generation
2014

Lost, Lost, Lost
1976

Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
1971

All Star Video
1985

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
1984

Burroughs: The Movie
1984

Une semaine dans la vie de camarades
1976

The Fall
1969

A Supermarket in Californi
2024

Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
2008

The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
2007

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
1967

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000

Thot-Fal'N
1978

Lake Placid '80
1980

Birth of a Nation
1997

Dylan Speaks
1965

Before Stonewall
1984

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
1994

Underground New York
1968

The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
2014

Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
2017

He! Viva Dada
1965

Don't Blink - Robert Frank
2015

Poetry in Motion
1982

Ciao! Manhattan
1973

This Song for Jack
1983

Heavy Petting
1989

It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
1985

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019

Couch
1964

Jonas in the Desert
1994

Hare Krishna
1967

Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
1989

Joan of Arc
1967

Growing Up in America
1989

Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965

How the Beatles Changed the World
2017

Guns of the Trees
1961

Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
2004

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
1990

Road Scholar
1993

Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
1977

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010

Condo Painting
2000

Summer of Love
1990

Symphony Of The Invisible
2020

Anatomy of Violence
1967

Ballad of the Skeletons
1997

65 Revisited
2007

Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint
1982

U2: A Year in Pop
1997

Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
1986

Bed Peace
1969
Directing (1 movie)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Ballad of the Skeletons | 1997 | Writer |
| A Supermarket in Californi | 2024 | Screenplay |