Allen Ginsberg

Acting•Born June 3, 1926•Died April 5, 1997 (age 70)•Newark, New Jersey, USA

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.

Known For

Filmography

2026

Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC

as Self

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2025

castelporziano ostia dei poeti

as Self - poet

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2025

Nova '78

as Self (archive footage)

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2025

One to One: John & Yoko

as Self (archive footage)

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2025

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

as Self (archive footage)

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2024

A Supermarket in Californi

as Self (voice) (archive)

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2024

Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri

as Self (archive footage)

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2023

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

as Self (archive footage)

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2022

Why Is We Americans?

as Self (archive footage)

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2021

The Velvet Underground

as Self (archive footage)

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2020

70 Years of Youth Revolt

as Self (archive footage)

2020

Symphony Of The Invisible

as Self (voice) (archive)

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2019

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

as The Oracle of Delphi

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2018

A Walking Tour of the East Village 1985

as Self

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2018

Take Your Pills

as Self (archive footage)

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2017

Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

as Self (archive footage)

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2017

How the Beatles Changed the World

as Self (archive footage)

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2015

Don't Blink - Robert Frank

as Self (archive footage)

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2015

A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol

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2015

William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine

as Self (archive footage)

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2014

The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain

as Self (archive footage)

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2014

Great Poets: In Their Own Words

as Self (archive footage)

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2014

Beat Generation

as Self (archive footage)

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2012

Norman Mailer: The American

as Self (archive footage)

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2012

The Beat Hotel

as Self (archive footage)

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2011

Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

as Self (archive footage)

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2010

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

as Self (archive footage)

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2010

Howl

as Self

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2009

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

as Self (archive footage)

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2008

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

as Self (archive footage)

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2008

Tim Leary: The Art of Dying

as Self (archive footage)

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2007

65 Revisited

as Self (archive footage)

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2007

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

as Self (archive footage)

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2006

To John With Love

as Self (archive footage)

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2006

Poets at the Living Theater

as Self (archive footage)

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2005

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

as Self

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2004

Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair

as Self (archive footage)

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2003

The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

as Self (archive footage)

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2002

The Cockettes

as Self (archive footage)

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2002

American Magus

as Self (archive footage)

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2000

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

as Self (archive footage)

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2000

Condo Painting

as Self (archive footage)

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1999

New York: A Documentary Film

as Self - Commentator

1999

Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles

as Self (archive footage)

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1999

The Source

as Self (archive footage)

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1998

Brakhage

as Self (archive footage)

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1997

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

as Self (archive footage)

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1997

Ballad of the Skeletons

as Self

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1997

On the Road to Desolation

as Self (archive footage)

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1997

Happy Birthday to John

as Self

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1997

Birth of a Nation

as Self

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1997

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

as Self

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1997

U2: A Year in Pop

as Self

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1997

A Poet from the Lower East Side

as Self

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1995

Van Gogh's Ear

as Self

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1994

Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys

as Self

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1994

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

as Self (archive footage)

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1994

An Autumn Wind

as Self

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1994

Jonas in the Desert

as Self

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1994

Moving Pictures

as Self

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1993

Road Scholar

as Self

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1990

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections

as Self

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1990

Berkeley in the Sixties

as Self

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1990

Silence = Death

as Self

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1989

Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center

as Self

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1989

Heavy Petting

as Self

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1989

Growing Up in America

as Self

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1989

Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

as Self

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1988

Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman

as Self

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1986

Autumn Ritual

as Self

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1986

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

as Self (archive footage)

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1986

Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank

as Self

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1985

It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen

as Lawyer

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1985

All Star Video

as Self (archive footage)

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1984

Before Stonewall

as Self

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1984

Burroughs: The Movie

as Self

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1984

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

as Self

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1984

Ginsberg/Corso Tapes

as Self

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1983

This Song for Jack

as Self

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1982

Poetry in Motion

as Self

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1982

Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint

as Self

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1981

Greetings from Washington, D.C.

as Self

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1980

No. 18: Mahagonny

as Self

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1980

The Beats: An Existential Comedy

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1980

La marche gaie

as Self

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1980

Lake Placid '80

as Self

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1979

Gay March on Washington

as Self

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1979

Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

as Self

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1978

Thot-Fal'N

as Self

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1978

Renaldo and Clara

as The Father

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1977

Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration

as Self

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1976

Lost, Lost, Lost

as Self

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1976

Une semaine dans la vie de camarades

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1974

Suite 212

as Self

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1973

We Can't Go Home Again

as Allen

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1973

Ciao! Manhattan

as Self

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1973

Global Groove

as Self

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1973

Pickup's Tricks

as Self

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1971

Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally

as Self

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1971

Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

as Self

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1971

Johnny Minotaur

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1969

Bed Peace

as Self

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1969

Me and My Brother

as Self

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1969

The Fall

as Self

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1968

Yippie

as Self

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1968

The Dick Cavett Show

as Self - Guest

1968

A.G.

as Self

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1968

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

as Self (archive footage)

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1968

Underground New York

as Self

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1968

Chicago

as Self

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1967

Anatomy of Violence

as Self

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1967

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

as Self

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1967

Ah, Sunflower

as Self

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1967

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

as Self (archive footage)

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1967

Herostratus

as Poet (voice)

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1967

Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back

as Self (uncredited)

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1967

Hare Krishna

as Self

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1967

Be-In

as Self

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1967

Joan of Arc

as Self

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1966

Galaxie

as Self

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1966

Chappaqua

as Messiah

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1965

Wholly Communion

as Self

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1965

Dylan Speaks

as Self (archive footage)

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1965

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

as Self

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1965

Allan for Allan

as Self

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1965

He! Viva Dada

as Self

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1964

Couch

as Self

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1964

Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes

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1961

Guns of the Trees

as Self (voice)

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1959

Pull My Daisy

as Alan

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Personal Info

DepartmentActing

BirthdayJune 3, 1926

Day of DeathApril 5, 1997

Place of BirthNewark, New Jersey, USA

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