Alan Watts
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Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularising Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
Known for
Credits
Everything (2017)
as Narrator (archive footage)
Play (2018)
as Self (voice recording)
Work as Play (1973)
as Himself
Exhale (—)
as (voice)
The Art of Meditation (1971)
as Himself
Until There Was Nothing (2020)
as Narrator
Conversation with Myself (1972)
as Himself
TRUST THE UNIVERSE: The Philosophy of Alan Watts (—)
as Himself - Voice
Zen Dog (2016)
as Alan Watts (voice)
The Flow of Zen (1969)
as Narrator
Zen: The Best of Alan Watts (1994)
as Himself
Buddhism, Man and Nature (1968)
as Narrator
Zen and Now (1969)
as Narrator
The Monkey Conflict (2024)
as Storyteller
Time and the More It Changes (1972)
as Self