Allen Ginsberg
Known for: Acting
Born: June 3, 1926
Died: April 5, 1997
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 t…
Known for
A.G.
1968
Yippie
1968
A Poet from the Lower East Side
1997
La marche gaie
1980
Ah, Sunflower
1967
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979
Be-In
1967
Pickup's Tricks
1973
A Supermarket in Californi
2024
Lake Placid '80
1980
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
1994
Underground New York
1968
Allan for Allan
1965
Road Scholar
1993
Ballad of the Skeletons
1997
Van Gogh's Ear
1995
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint
1982
Poets at the Living Theater
2006
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025
Allen Ginsberg Sings Blues
2006
American Magus
2002
Pull My Daisy
1959
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
1989
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005
All Star Video
1985
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
2017
This Song for Jack
1983
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
Growing Up in America
1989
Symphony Of The Invisible
2020
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
1986
Ginsberg/Corso Tapes
1984
Moving Pictures
1994
An Autumn Wind
1994
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
2008
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
1999
Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys
1994
Suite 212
1974
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009
No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
1997
Global Groove
1973
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
1971
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
2008
Dylan Speaks
1965
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
2014
He! Viva Dada
1965
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
2004
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
1990
Anatomy of Violence
1967
Chicago
1968
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
2015
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
2025
The Beats: An Existential Comedy
1980
A Walking Tour of the East Village 1985
2018
Chappaqua
1966
Why Is We Americans?
2022
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
2011
Norman Mailer: The American
2012
Me and My Brother
1969
Wholly Communion
1965
The Source
1999
Autumn Ritual
1986
Silence = Death
1990
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
1967
Heavy Petting
1989
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
1985
Couch
1964
Jonas in the Desert
1994
Hare Krishna
1967
Joan of Arc
1967
Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman
1988
Berkeley in the Sixties
1990
Happy Birthday to John
1997
Burroughs: The Movie
1984
Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
1964
Thot-Fal'N
1978
Before Stonewall
1984
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
1977
65 Revisited
2007
Gay March on Washington
1979
To John With Love
2006
Johnny Minotaur
1971
Beat Generation
2014
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
2003
Poetry in Motion
1982
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
1989
Condo Painting
2000
Nova '78
2025
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
1981
The Fall
1969
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
2015
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2024
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
2007
U2: A Year in Pop
1997
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967
Herostratus
1967
The Beat Hotel
2012
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades
1976
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
1971
We Can't Go Home Again
1973
Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC
2026
Brakhage
1998
Renaldo and Clara
1978
Galaxie
1966
Bed Peace
1969
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
1984
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010
On the Road to Desolation
1997
Howl
2010
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
Guns of the Trees
1961
The Velvet Underground
2021
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
2014
One to One: John & Yoko
2025
How the Beatles Changed the World
2017
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965
Birth of a Nation
1997
Ciao! Manhattan
1973
The Cockettes
2002
Take Your Pills
2018
70 Years of Youth Revolt
2020
New York: A Documentary Film
1999
The Dick Cavett Show
1968