Alan Watts
Known for ActingBorn 1915-01-06 — died 1973-11-16Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
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
Play
2018 · as Self (voice recording)
Zen Dog
2016 · as Alan Watts (voice)
Exhale
as (voice)
Everything
2017 · as Narrator (archive footage)
The Flow of Zen
1969 · as Narrator
Conversation with Myself
1972 · as Himself
Until There Was Nothing
2020 · as Narrator
The Art of Meditation
1971 · as Himself
Work as Play
1973 · as Himself
TRUST THE UNIVERSE: The Philosophy of Alan Watts
as Himself - Voice
Zen: The Best of Alan Watts
1994 · as Himself
Zen and Now
1969 · as Narrator
The Monkey Conflict
2024 · as Storyteller
Buddhism, Man and Nature
1968 · as Narrator
Time and the More It Changes
1972 · as Self