Allen Ginsberg
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Film
A Poet from the Lower East Side
Self
1997
Series
New York: A Documentary Film
Self - Commentator
1999
ALLEN & AI
2026
Film
Nova '78
Self (archive footage)
2026
Film
Howl
Self
2010
Series
70 Years of Youth Revolt
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
The Oracle of Delphi
2019
Film
Beat Generation
Self (archive footage)
2014
Film
Take Your Pills
Self (archive footage)
2018
Film
Herostratus
Poet (voice)
1967
Film
One to One: John & Yoko
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
Self (uncredited)
1967
Film
The Cockettes
Self (archive footage)
2002
Film
Condo Painting
Self (archive footage)
2000
Film
The Source
Self (archive footage)
1999
Film
The Velvet Underground
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
Chappaqua
Messiah
1966
Film
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
Self
1967
No. 18: Mahagonny
Self
1980
Film
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
Self
1989
Film
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Hare Krishna
Self
1967
Film
How the Beatles Changed the World
Self (archive footage)
2017
Film
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Self (archive footage)
2000
Autumn Ritual
Self
1986
Film
Before Stonewall
Self
1984
Film
Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC
Self
2026
Film
The Beat Hotel
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
Johnny Minotaur
1971
Film
Guns of the Trees
Self (voice)
1961
Film
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
Self (archive footage)
2025
Film
Burroughs: The Movie
Self
1984
Chicago
Self
1968
Film
Renaldo and Clara
The Father
1978
Film
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
Self
1990
Film
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self (archive footage)
1968
On the Road to Desolation
Self (archive footage)
1997
Film
Me and My Brother
Self
1969
Film
Bed Peace
Self
1969
Film
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Self
2005
Film
Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys
Self
1994
Film
Heavy Petting
Self
1989
Film
Poetry in Motion
Self
1982
Film
Lost, Lost, Lost
Self
1976
Film
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Self (archive footage)
2010
Film
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint
Self
1982
Film
Berkeley in the Sixties
Self
1990
Film
Ciao! Manhattan
Self
1973
Film
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
Self
1989
Film
Ah, Sunflower
Self
1967
Film
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Self (archive footage)
2009
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
Self
1979
Film
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
Self
1986
Film
This Song for Jack
Self
1983
Film
Joan of Arc
Self
1967
Moving Pictures
Self
1994
Film
Birth of a Nation
Self
1997
Film
We Can't Go Home Again
Allen
1973
Film
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self (archive footage)
1986
Film
Dylan Speaks
Self (archive footage)
1965
Film
Why Is We Americans?
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
A Supermarket in California
Self (voice) (archive)
2024
Film
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage)
1994
Film
The Fall
Self
1969
Film
Norman Mailer: The American
Self (archive footage)
2012
Film
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
He! Viva Dada
Self
1965
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
Lawyer
1985
Film
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
Self
1984
Film
Jonas in the Desert
Self
1994
Film
Anatomy of Violence
Self
1967
Film
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2014
Film
Global Groove
Self
1973
Film
Symphony Of The Invisible
Self (voice) (archive)
2020
Film
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
Underground New York
Self
1968
Film
Pickup's Tricks
Self
1973
Film
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
Self - poet
2025
Ginsberg/Corso Tapes
Self
1984
An Autumn Wind
Self
1994
Film
Yippie
Self
1968
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
Self (archive footage)
1997
Film
To John With Love
Self (archive footage)
2006
Film
All Star Video
Self (archive footage)
1985
Film
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today
Self
1987
Film
Couch
Self
1964
Film
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
Self
1971
Film
A.G.
Self
1968
Film
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
Pull My Daisy
Alan
1959
Film
La marche gaie
Self
1980
Film
Happy Birthday to John
Self
1997
Film
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
Self
1971
Film
U2: A Year in Pop
Self
1997
Film
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Self
1965
Film
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
Self (archive footage)
2007
Film
Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman
Self
1988
Film
Growing Up in America
Self
1989
Film
65 Revisited
Self (archive footage)
2007
Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
1964
The Beats: An Existential Comedy
1980
Film
Silence = Death
Self
1990
Film
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
Self
1977
Film
American Magus
Self (archive footage)
2002
Film
Ballad of the Skeletons
Self
1997
Film
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015
Allan for Allan
Self
1965
Film
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
Self (archive footage)
1967
Film
Brakhage
Self (archive footage)
1998
Film
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades
1976
Film
Poets at the Living Theater
Self (archive footage)
2006
Film
Galaxie
Self
1966
Film
Thot-Fal'N
Self
1978
Film
Road Scholar
Self
1993
Film
Wholly Communion
Self
1965
Film
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
Self
1997
Film
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Self (archive footage)
2011
Film
Be-In
Self
1967
Film
A Walking Tour of the East Village 1985
Self
2018
Film
Van Gogh's Ear
Self
1995
Film
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
Self
1981
Film
Lake Placid '80
Self
1980
Film
Gay March on Washington
Self
1979
Film
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
Self (archive footage)
1999
Film
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
Self (archive footage)
2014
Film
Suite 212
Self
1974
Allen Ginsberg Sings Blues
2006
Film
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
Self (archive footage)
2017