Allen Ginsberg

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-06-03 (71 years old)

Deathday

1997-04-05

Place of Birth

Newark, New Jersey, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia a...

Acting

2021

The Velvet Underground

as Self (archive footage)

1966

Chappaqua

as Messiah

1967

Dont Look Back

as Self (uncredited)

2002

American Magus

as Self (archive footage)

2023

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

as Self (archive footage)

2010

Howl

as Self

1959

1998

Brakhage

as Self (archive footage)

2022

Why Is We Americans?

as Self (archive footage)

2018

Take Your Pills

as Self (archive footage)

1968

A.G.

as Self

1999

2012

Norman Mailer: The American

as Self (archive footage)

1994

1965

1974

Suite 212

as Self

1968

Yippie

as Self

1999

The Source

as Self (archive footage)

2009

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

as Self (archive footage)

1986

1990

2014

Great Poets: In Their Own Words

as Self (archive footage)

2008

Chicago 10

as Self (archive footage)

2001

New York in the Fifties

as Self (archive footage)

1978

Renaldo and Clara

as The Father

2002

The Cockettes

as Self (archive footage)

1980

1967

1966

Galaxie

as Self

1967

Be-In

as Self

1973

2005

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

as Self (archive footage)

1967

Herostratus

as Poet (voice)

2012

The Beat Hotel

as Self (archive footage)

1973

2014

Beat Generation

as Self (archive footage)

1976

1985

All Star Video

as Self (archive footage)

1969

The Fall

as Self

2024

A Supermarket in Californi

as Self (voice) (archive)

2008

Tim Leary: The Art of Dying

as Self (archive footage)

1967

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

as Self (archive footage)

1978

Thot-Fal'N

as Self

1980

1965

Dylan Speaks

as Self (archive footage)

1984

1994

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

as Self (archive footage)

2014

The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain

as Self (archive footage)

2017

Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

as Self (archive footage)

1965

2015

Don't Blink - Robert Frank

as Self (archive footage)

2003

The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

as Self (archive footage)

1982

1973

1989

1964

Couch

as Self

1967

1967

1965

2017

How the Beatles Changed the World

as Self (archive footage)

1961

Guns of the Trees

as Self (voice)

2013

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

as Self (archive footage)

1993

2017

Uncle Howard

as Self (archive footage)

2010

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

as Self (archive footage)

2000

Condo Painting

as Self (archive footage)

1990

2020

Symphony Of The Invisible

as Self (voice) (archive)

1997

Ballad of the Skeletons

as Self (archive footage)

2007

65 Revisited

as Self (archive footage)

1995

1968

Chicago

as Self

1969

Bed Peace

as Self

2015

1997

On the Road to Desolation

as Self (archive footage)

1994

2006

To John With Love

as Self (archive footage)

2006

Poets at the Living Theater

as Self (archive footage)

2025

One to One: John & Yoko

as Self (archive footage)

Production

© All Rights Reserved 2025