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Allen Ginsberg (I) (1926–1997)

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Allen Ginsberg was one of the trinity of "Beat Generation" writers who revolutionized American letters in the mid-'50s and '60s (the other two members being Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, both of whom were close friends of his). His poem "Howl" and Kerouac's 1957 novel "On the Road" were the two gospels that launched the Beat movement--or... See full bio »

Born:

Irwin Allen Ginsberg
in Newark, New Jersey, USA

Died:

(age 70) in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
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Hide HideActor (14 titles)
2012 America (video)
Narrator (voice)
 
2007 Speak Out (TV movie)
 
2000 Twister: A Musical Catastrophe (video)
He Dead Too (as Rabbi Buddha Whitman/Ginsburg)
 
1997 Ballad of the Skeletons (short)
 
1984 It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
 
1978 Renaldo and Clara
The Father
 
1978 Thot-Fal'N (short)
 
1973 Global Groove (video short)
 
1971 Johnny Minotaur
 
1970/I Prologue
 
1968 Love Love Love (short)
 
1967 Herostratus
Poet (voice)
 
1966 Chappaqua
Messiah
 
1959 Pull My Daisy (short)
Allen (as Alan Ginsberg)
 
Show ShowWriter (6 titles)
1997 Ballad of the Skeletons (short)
 
1997 The Fifties (TV mini-series documentary)
– The Beat (1997) (poem "Howl")
 
1995 United States of Poetry (TV mini-series documentary)
 
1994 An Autumn Wind (short)
 
1994 Drug-Taking and the Arts (documentary) (poem "Laughing Gas")
 
1969 Me and My Brother (poems)
 
Show ShowSoundtrack (4 titles)
2008 Patti Smith: Dream of Life (documentary) (writer: "Spell")
 
1994-2005 American Masters (TV series documentary)
– No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005) (writer: "America" / performer: "America")
– The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1994) (writer: "New Stanzas for Amazing Grace")
 
2002 The Cockettes (documentary) (writer: "Nurse's Song" / performer: "Nurse's Song")
 
1978 Renaldo and Clara (performer: "Nurse's Song")
 
Show ShowComposer (3 titles)
2011 Bagels, Borscht, and Brotherhood - Allen Ginsberg (documentary short)
 
1998 Hustler for Life (short)
 
1997 Ballad of the Skeletons (short)
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (3 titles)
2000 Mushroom's Dam (short) (poem)
 
1997 The Fifties (TV mini-series documentary) (archive source)
 
1994 Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider (documentary) (archival photographs by)
 
Show ShowThanks (3 titles)
2007 The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music (documentary) (dedicated to the memory of)
 
1997 Good Will Hunting (in memory of)
 
1990 Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (documentary) (thanks: for generous help and insight)
 
Show ShowSelf (77 titles)
2011 Bagels, Borscht, and Brotherhood - Allen Ginsberg (documentary short)
Himself
 
2011 Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (documentary)
Himself
 
2010 Norman Mailer: The American (documentary)
 
2009 Corso: The Last Beat (documentary)
 
2009 Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (documentary)
Himself
 
2002 Jonas at the Ocean (documentary)
Himself
 
2002 American Magus (documentary)
Himself
 
2002 Farewell to the Deuce (documentary)
Himself
 
2001 The Praise of Folly (documentary)
Himself (voice)
 
2001 Sleep in a Nest of Flames (documentary)
Himself
 
2000 My Generation (documentary)
Himself
 
2000 Condo Painting (documentary)
 
1999 The American Experience (TV series documentary)
Himself
– New York: Part V - Cosmopolis (1999) … Himself
– New York: Part II - Order and Disorder (1999) … Himself
– New York: Part 6 - The City of Tomorrow (1999) … Himself
– New York: Part 7 - The City and the World (1999) … Himself
 
1994-1999 American Masters (TV series documentary)
Himself
– The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation (1999) … Himself
– The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1994) … Himself
 
1998 Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles (documentary)
Himself
 
1998 Hustler for Life (short)
Himself
 
1998 Cold War (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
– Make Love Not War (1998) … Himself
 
1997 U2: A Year in Pop (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1997 Charlie Rose (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 7 April 1997 (1997) … Himself
 
1997 Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (video documentary)
Himself
 
1997 The Fifties (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
– The Beat (1997) … Himself (also archive footage)
 
1997 A Poet on the Lower East Side: A Docu-Diary on Allen Ginsberg (documentary)
 
1996 The Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti (documentary)
 
1995 Man Alive (TV series)
Himself - Poet
– Nirvana in Nova Scotia (1995) … Himself - Poet
 
1995 Rock & Roll (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
 
1995 United States of Poetry (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
 
1995 Face to Face (TV series)
Himself
– Allen Ginsberg (1995) … Himself
 
1995 The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 6 (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1994 Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider (documentary)
Himself - Poet
 
1994 ChickenHawk (documentary)
Himself
 
1994 Jonas in the Desert (documentary)
Himself
 
1994 An Autumn Wind (short)
Himself
 
1994 Drug-Taking and the Arts (documentary)
Himself (poet)
 
1993 Road Scholar (documentary)
Himself
 
1990 Flashbacks (documentary short)
Interview Subject
 
1990 Silence = Death (documentary)
Himself
 
1990 Flashing on the Sixties: A Tribal Document (video documentary)
Himself
 
1989 Heavy Petting (documentary)
Himself
 
1989 Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets (documentary)
Himself
 
1988 Growing Up in America (documentary)
Himself
 
1987 The Beat Generation: An American Dream (documentary)
Himself
 
1987 It Was 20 Years Ago Today (documentary)
Himself
 
1986 What Happened to Kerouac? (documentary)
Himself
 
1985 Kerouac, the Movie (documentary)
Himself (poet)
 
1984 Before Stonewall (documentary)
Himself
 
1983 Arena (TV series documentary)
– Burroughs (1983)
 
1983 Levottomat palat (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 3 February 1983 (1983) … Himself
 
1982 Poetry in Motion (documentary)
Himself
 
1982 Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections (documentary short)
Himself
 
1981 Kopaszkutya
Himself
 
1980 The Beats: An Existential Comedy (video documentary short)
Himself
 
1980 Mahagonny
Himself
 
1980 La marche gaie (documentary short)
Himself
 
1980 Castelporziano, ostia dei poeti (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1979 Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (documentary)
Himself
 
1979 The War at Home (documentary)
Himself - Activist
 
1975 The Irv Kupcinet Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 18 August 1975 (1975) … Himself
 
1973 Pickup's Tricks (documentary)
 
1972 Ciao Manhattan
Himself
 
1971 Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family (documentary)
Himself
 
1971 Dynamite Chicken
Himself
 
1971 Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally (documentary)
Himself
 
1969 Walden (documentary)
Himself
 
1969 The David Frost Show (TV series)
Himself
– Episode #1.25 (1969) … Himself
 
1969 Me and My Brother
Himself
 
1969 The Fall (documentary)
Himself
 
1968 Firing Line (TV series)
Himself
– The Hippies (1968) … Himself
 
1968 Yippie (short)
Himself
 
1967 Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (documentary)
Himself
 
1967 Dont Look Back (documentary)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1967 Ah, Sunflower (documentary short)
Himself
 
1967 What's Happening? (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1967 Anatomy of Violence (TV documentary)
Himself - Non-Violent Poet-Prophet
 
1967 Be-In (documentary short)
Himself
 
1966 Galaxie
Himself
 
1965 Wholly Communion (documentary short)
Himself
 
1964 Couch
Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (33 titles)
2013 Science Fiction Land (documentary)
Himself
 
2011 Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (documentary)
 
2011 Stage Left: A Story of Theater in San Francisco (documentary)
Himself
 
2011 Magic Trip (documentary)
Himself
 
2011 The Real American: Joe McCarthy (documentary)
Himself (voice) (uncredited)
 
2011 Rich Hall's Continental Drifters (TV documentary)
Himself (archive sound)
 
2010 William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (documentary)
 
2010 Howl
Himself
 
2009 Pop Galerie Reloaded (TV series documentary)
 
2008 Tim Leary: The Art of Dying (documentary)
Himself
 
2008 Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (documentary)
Himself
 
2007 Sekai gumi TV (TV series documentary)
 
2007 20 to 1 (TV series documentary)
 
2007 Bob Dylan: Music in Review (video)
 
2007 The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music (documentary)
Himself
 
The Drug Years (TV mini-series documentary)
 
2006 SexTV (TV series documentary)
 
2005 American Masters (TV series documentary)
 
2005 The Ballad of Greenwich Village (documentary)
Himself
 
2004 Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair (video documentary)
Himself
 
2003 Portrait of a Bookstore as an Old Man (documentary)
Himself
 
2003 The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' (video documentary short)
Himself
 
2002 The Cockettes (documentary)
Himself
 
2001 Literárky - Zápas o mantinely (documentary)
Himself
 
2000 Hendrix (TV movie)
Himself (at microphone) (uncredited)
 
2000 New York in the 50's (documentary)
Himself
 
1999 Grass (documentary)
Himself
 
1998 Bravo Profiles (TV series documentary)
 
1997 Happy Birthday to John (documentary short)
Himself
 
1997 No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg 1926-1997 (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1997 Birth of a Nation (documentary)
Himself
 
1990 Berkeley in the Sixties (documentary)
Himself
 
1986 He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Himself
 

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Personal Details

Other Works:

(1960): Poetry book: "Empty Mirror". See more »

Publicity Listings:

3 Biographical Movies  | 1 Print Biography  | 2 Interviews  | 6 Articles  | See more »

Alternate Names:

Alan Ginsberg | Rabbi Buddha Whitman/Ginsburg

Height:

5' 9" (1.75 m)
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Personal Quote:

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. See more »

Trivia:

In 1965 he was deported from Cuba for publicly protesting against the country's anti-marijuana stance and its homophobic social polices that result in many homosexuals being jailed. He also outraged Fidel Castro and his cadre of "Fidelistas" by allegedly making the remark that Ernesto 'Che' Guevara was "cute." The Cubans deported him to Czechoslovakia... See more »

Star Sign:

Gemini