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Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

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

Born

Jun 03, 1926

Newark, New Jersey, USA

Died

Apr 05, 1997

Known For

Acting

Movies

134 acting

10 crew

Popularity

0.6

Known For

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
★ 7.0
Howl
Howl
2010 • as Self
★ 6.5
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967 • as Self (uncredited)
★ 7.4
One to One: John & Yoko
One to One: John & Yoko
2025 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 7.1
How the Beatles Changed the World
How the Beatles Changed the World
2017 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 7.3
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation
1997 • as Self
★ 7.0
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground
2021 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 6.8
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
★ 7.8
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 6.8
Guns of the Trees
Guns of the Trees
1961 • as Self (voice)
★ 7.3
Berkeley in the Sixties
Berkeley in the Sixties
1990 • as Self
★ 6.0
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
★ 8.1
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 7.3
movie
Autumn Ritual
1986 • as Self
★ 8.8
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
★ 8.4
The Cockettes
The Cockettes
2002 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 6.9
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
2015 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 7.0
Burroughs: The Movie
Burroughs: The Movie
1984 • as Self
★ 7.0
Me and My Brother
Me and My Brother
1969 • as Self
★ 6.5
Take Your Pills
Take Your Pills
2018 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 6.5
May Day x 4
May Day x 4
2026 • as Self
Norman Mailer: The American
Norman Mailer: The American
2012 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 7.0
Symphony Of The Invisible
Symphony Of The Invisible
2020 • as Self (voice) (archive)
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
★ 6.7
Lost, Lost, Lost
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976 • as Self
★ 7.1
The Source
The Source
1999 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 5.6
movie
Herostratus
Herostratus
1967 • as Poet (voice)
★ 6.3
Chappaqua
Chappaqua
1966 • as Messiah
★ 6.2
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
★ 5.5
Happy Birthday to John
Happy Birthday to John
1997 • as Self
★ 5.3
Bed Peace
Bed Peace
1969 • as Self
★ 7.5
A Poet from the Lower East Side
★ 10.0
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 6.6
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025 • as Self - poet
★ 7.5
Heavy Petting
Heavy Petting
1989 • as Self
★ 5.7
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
★ 8.0
Nova '78
Nova '78
2026 • as Self (archive footage)
Condo Painting
Condo Painting
2000 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 10.0
movie
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2024 • as Self (archive footage)
Beat Generation
Beat Generation
2014 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 9.2
movie
★ 7.7
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
2014 • as Self (archive footage)
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
★ 9.0
Before Stonewall
Before Stonewall
1984 • as Self
★ 6.5
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
★ 7.3
U2: A Year in Pop
U2: A Year in Pop
1997 • as Self
★ 9.0
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
2008 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 6.2
movie
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980 • as Self
★ 6.0
To John With Love
To John With Love
2006 • as Self (archive footage)
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 5.0
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
2014 • as Self (archive footage)
Jonas in the Desert
Jonas in the Desert
1994 • as Self
★ 6.4
movie
On the Road to Desolation
1997 • as Self (archive footage)
All Star Video
All Star Video
1985 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 6.5
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
1994 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 5.7
Growing Up in America
Growing Up in America
1989 • as Self
★ 8.5
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
1999 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 3.6
Ciao! Manhattan
Ciao! Manhattan
1973 • as Self
★ 5.5
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
1967 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 7.0
movie
Moving Pictures
1994 • as Self
The Beat Hotel
The Beat Hotel
2012 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 4.5
Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys
★ 6.1
We Can't Go Home Again
We Can't Go Home Again
1973 • as Allen
★ 6.1
This Song for Jack
This Song for Jack
1983 • as Self
★ 6.5
Gay March on Washington
Gay March on Washington
1979 • as Self
Renaldo and Clara
Renaldo and Clara
1978 • as The Father
★ 7.9
Yippie
Yippie
1968 • as Self
★ 5.4
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
2004 • as Self (archive footage)
65 Revisited
65 Revisited
2007 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 9.4
Why Is We Americans?
Why Is We Americans?
2022 • as Self (archive footage)
Silence = Death
Silence = Death
1990 • as Self
★ 5.1
movie
Chicago
1968 • as Self
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
2015 • as Self (archive footage)
Anatomy of Violence
Anatomy of Violence
1967 • as Self
Pull My Daisy
Pull My Daisy
1959 • as Alan
★ 6.1
Couch
Couch
1964 • as Self
★ 6.4
Van Gogh's Ear
Van Gogh's Ear
1995 • as Self
★ 4.0
Hare Krishna
Hare Krishna
1967 • as Self
★ 4.9
Ah, Sunflower
Ah, Sunflower
1967 • as Self
Ballad of the Skeletons
Ballad of the Skeletons
1997 • as Self
★ 5.8
Poets at the Living Theater
Poets at the Living Theater
2006 • as Self (archive footage)
He! Viva Dada
He! Viva Dada
1965 • as Self
The Fall
The Fall
1969 • as Self
★ 7.2
movie
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
2003 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 8.0
Brakhage
Brakhage
1998 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 7.1
Pickup's Tricks
Pickup's Tricks
1973 • as Self
Poetry in Motion
Poetry in Motion
1982 • as Self
★ 8.0
Underground New York
Underground New York
1968 • as Self
Johnny Minotaur
★ 5.5
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today
★ 8.0
Thot-Fal'N
Thot-Fal'N
1978 • as Self
★ 5.7
Wholly Communion
Wholly Communion
1965 • as Self
★ 6.3
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
2008 • as Self (archive footage)
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc
1967 • as Self
Lake Placid '80
Lake Placid '80
1980 • as Self
★ 8.0
Galaxie
Galaxie
1966 • as Self
★ 10.0
La marche gaie
La marche gaie
1980 • as Self
★ 4.8
Dylan Speaks
Dylan Speaks
1965 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 2.0
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
2017 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 4.0
Global Groove
Global Groove
1973 • as Self
★ 7.7
movie
Ginsberg/Corso Tapes
1984 • as Self
A Supermarket in California
A Supermarket in California
2024 • as Self (voice) (archive)
A.G.
A.G.
1968 • as Self
Suite 212
Suite 212
1974 • as Self
Road Scholar
Road Scholar
1993 • as Self
★ 8.5
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
2011 • as Self (archive footage)
★ 6.8
American Magus
American Magus
2002 • as Self (archive footage)
Be-In
Be-In
1967 • as Self
★ 5.0
movie
An Autumn Wind
1994 • as Self
movie
Allan for Allan
1965 • as Self
movie