Allen Ginsberg
Known for ActingBorn 1926-06-03 — died 1997-04-05Newark, New Jersey, USA
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.
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Known for
The Cockettes
2002 · as Self (archive footage)
The Source
1999 · as Self (archive footage)
Condo Painting
2000 · as Self (archive footage)
Beat Generation
2014 · as Self (archive footage)
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967 · as Self (uncredited)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019 · as The Oracle of Delphi
Chicago
1968 · as Self
A Poet from the Lower East Side
1997 · as Self
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000 · as Self (archive footage)
Before Stonewall
1984 · as Self
Nova '78
2025 · as Self (archive footage)
The Velvet Underground
2021 · as Self (archive footage)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005 · as Self
Chappaqua
1966 · as Messiah
Howl
2010 · as Self
Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC
2026 · as Self
One to One: John & Yoko
2025 · as Self (archive footage)
Herostratus
1967 · as Poet (voice)