Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
6/3/1926
Place of Birth
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Also Known As
Irwin Allen GinsbergAlan Ginsberg
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. ...
Known For
Silence = Death
as Self
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
as Self
65 Revisited
as Self (archive footage)
One to One: John & Yoko
as Self (archive footage)
Wholly Communion
as Self
Ciao! Manhattan
as Self
Galaxie
as Self
Ah, Sunflower
as Self
Suite 212
as Self
Herostratus
as Poet (voice)
Brakhage
as Self (archive footage)
Be-In
as Self
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self (archive footage)
Yippie
as Self
Bed Peace
as Self
Before Stonewall
as Self
Howl
as Self
Chappaqua
as Messiah
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
as Self (archive footage)
Dylan Speaks
as Self (archive footage)
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No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
as Self (archive footage)
Ballad of the Skeletons
as Self (archive footage)
On the Road to Desolation
as Self (archive footage)
Happy Birthday to John
as Self
Birth of a Nation
as Self
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
as Self
U2: A Year in Pop
as Self
A Poet from the Lower East Side
as Self