Timothy Leary

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-10-22 (76 years old)

Deathday

1996-05-31

Place of Birth

Springfield, Massachusetts, USA

Timothy Leary

Biography

Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions. Leary conducted experiments under the Harvard Psilocybin Project during American legality of LSD and psilocybin, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Leary's colleague, Richard Alpert, was fired from Harvard University on May 27, 1963 for giving psilocybin to an undergraduate student. Leary was planning to leave Harvard when his teaching contract expired in June, the following month. He was fired, for "failure to keep classroom a...

Acting

1992

Silicon Valley Story

as The Good Venture Capitalist

1981

1989

Rude Awakening

as Diner at Ronnie's

1992

Roadside Prophets

as Salvadore

2021

Larry Flynt for President

as Self (archive footage)

1999

2019

Manson: Music From an Unsound Mind

as Self (archive footage)

1999

The Source

as Self

1967

Be-In

as Self

2007

Hippies

as Self (archive footage)

2016

1990

Fatal Skies

as Buddy

1993

Stuff

as Self

1990

Cyberpunk

as Himself

2021

Surviving You, Always

as Self (voice)

2016

HyperNormalisation

as Self (archive footage)

1983

We're All Devo

as Dr. Byrthfood

1989

Shocker

as TV Evangelist

1990

Night Visions

as New Age Minister

2000

John & Yoko's Year of Peace

as Self (archive footage)

1987

Medium Rare

as Dr. Kyle

1993

Energy!!! The Movie

as Robert Pearce

2017

How the Beatles Changed the World

as Self (archive footage)

2008

Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey

as Self (archive footage)

2020

My Psychedelic Love Story

as Self (archive footage)

1991

Ted & Venus

as Judge William H. Converse

1969

Bed Peace

as Self

1995

French Exit

as Herbal Ecstasy Guy

2025

One to One: John & Yoko

as Self (archive footage)

2003

The Net

as Self (archive footage)

Production

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