Allen Ginsberg
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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.
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How the Beatles Changed the World (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back (1967)
as Self (uncredited)
The Source (1999)
as Self (archive footage)
Before Stonewall (1984)
as Self
Howl (2010)
as Self
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
as Self (archive footage)
One to One: John & Yoko (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Birth of a Nation (1997)
as Self
The Velvet Underground (2021)
as Self (archive footage)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)
as The Oracle of Delphi
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
as Self
Nova '78 (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Take Your Pills (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
Moving Pictures (1994)
as Self
The Fall (1969)
as Self
Chappaqua (1966)
as Messiah
The Cockettes (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
Dylan Speaks (1965)
as Self (archive footage)
Herostratus (1967)
as Poet (voice)
Heavy Petting (1989)
as Self
Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC (2026)
as Self
Autumn Ritual (1986)
as Self
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London (1967)
as Self
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Beat Generation (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Jonas in the Desert (1994)
as Self
Me and My Brother (1969)
as Self
Condo Painting (2000)
as Self (archive footage)
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg (1994)
as Self (archive footage)
Norman Mailer: The American (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Burroughs: The Movie (1984)
as Self
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
Renaldo and Clara (1978)
as The Father
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (2025)
as Self (archive footage)
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)
as Self (archive footage)
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell (1984)
as Self
Why Is We Americans? (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Bed Peace (1969)
as Self
Poetry in Motion (1982)
as Self
Johnny Minotaur (1971)
Actor
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family (1971)
as Self
Chicago (1968)
as Self
Ah, Sunflower (1967)
as Self
No. 18: Mahagonny (1980)
as Self
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' (2003)
as Self (archive footage)
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles (1999)
as Self (archive footage)
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (1979)
as Self
Hare Krishna (1967)
as Self
Guns of the Trees (1961)
as Self (voice)
Couch (1964)
as Self
A Poet from the Lower East Side (1997)
as Self
Don't Blink - Robert Frank (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
Underground New York (1968)
as Self
Happy Birthday to John (1997)
as Self
U2: A Year in Pop (1997)
as Self
Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys (1994)
as Self
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (2011)
as Self (archive footage)
Andy Warhol Screen Tests (1965)
as Self
Ballad of the Skeletons (1997)
as Self
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally (1971)
as Self
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
To John With Love (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
All Star Video (1985)
as Self (archive footage)
Ciao! Manhattan (1973)
as Self
Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman (1988)
as Self
Global Groove (1973)
as Self
Thot-Fal'N (1978)
as Self
A.G. (1968)
as Self
Symphony Of The Invisible (2020)
as Self (voice) (archive)
On the Road to Desolation (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
A Supermarket in Californi (2024)
as Self (voice) (archive)
65 Revisited (2007)
as Self (archive footage)
Greetings from Washington, D.C. (1981)
as Self
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections (1990)
as Self
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol (2015)
Actor
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen (1985)
as Lawyer
The Beat Hotel (2012)
as Self (archive footage)
Yippie (1968)
as Self
Brakhage (1998)
as Self (archive footage)
American Magus (2002)
as Self (archive footage)
Galaxie (1966)
as Self
He! Viva Dada (1965)
as Self
Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)
as Self
No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg (1997)
as Self (archive footage)
Berkeley in the Sixties (1990)
as Self
Silence = Death (1990)
as Self
Be-In (1967)
as Self
We Can't Go Home Again (1973)
as Allen
Road Scholar (1993)
as Self
Pull My Daisy (1959)
as Alan
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri (2024)
as Self (archive footage)
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration (1977)
as Self
Growing Up in America (1989)
as Self
Anatomy of Violence (1967)
as Self
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine (2015)
as Self (archive footage)
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets (1989)
as Self
La marche gaie (1980)
as Self
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit (1997)
as Self
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Joan of Arc (1967)
as Self
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)
as Self (archive footage)
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center (1989)
as Self
Wholly Communion (1965)
as Self
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank (1986)
as Self
Great Poets: In Their Own Words (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
The Beats: An Existential Comedy (1980)
Actor
This Song for Jack (1983)
as Self
Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes (1964)
Actor
Pickup's Tricks (1973)
as Self
Ginsberg/Corso Tapes (1984)
as Self
A Walking Tour of the East Village 1985 (2018)
as Self
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint (1982)
as Self
Suite 212 (1974)
as Self
Poets at the Living Theater (2006)
as Self (archive footage)
Van Gogh's Ear (1995)
as Self
castelporziano ostia dei poeti (2025)
as Self - poet
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out (1967)
as Self (archive footage)
Lake Placid '80 (1980)
as Self
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades (1976)
Actor
Gay March on Washington (1979)
as Self
Allan for Allan (1965)
as Self
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel (2017)
as Self (archive footage)
An Autumn Wind (1994)
as Self