Allen Ginsberg

    Actor, Writer, Composer

    Birthdate: Jun 3, 1926

    Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey, USA

    Died: Apr 5, 1997

    Louis Ginsberg, the moderate Jewish Socialist and his wife Naomi, who was a radical Communist and irrepressible nudist are the parents of Irwin Allen Ginsberg, the poet and man of many other things eg. actor. Poems he written eg. Howl, Six gallery, Sunflower Sutra ... His themes: drugs, against Vietnam War, politics, "beat generation", hippies, buddhism, ... In 1970 he met with a Tibetan guru and he accepted Trungpa Rinpoche as his personal guru. He created a poetry school 'Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics'. He has remained active, publishing poems, realising musical recordings. He published a book with his own photos.

    Known For

    Beginners
    Beginners

    (2010)

    Howl
    Howl

    (2010)

    Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
    Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

    (1967)

    Allen Ginsberg Movies

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      Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

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      Bob Dylan: Busy Being Born
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    • 2019 |
      Ghost Artist
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      Rolling Thunder Revueas The Oracle of Delphi
    • 2019 |

      Before Stonewall

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    • 2018 |
      Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
    • 2017 |

      The B-Side

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    • 2017 |

      Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It

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    • 2015 |
      Don't Blink
    • 2016 |

      Don’t Blink

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    • 2015 |
      A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
    • 2014 |
      The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
    • 2009 |
      Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
    • 2011 |
      Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the Last of the Beatniks
    • 2011 |
      Love Always, Carolyn
    • 2011 |
      Crazy Wisdom: The Life & Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
    • 2011 |
      Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
    • 2010 |
      Howl
    • 2009 |
      Corso: The Last Beat
    • 2008 |
      The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg Deluxe Set
    • 2008 |
      Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
    • 2008 |
      Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
    • 2007 |
      The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
    • 2006 |
      Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
    • 2005 |
      The Ballad of Greenwich Village
    • 2002 |
      American Magus
    • 2002 |
      Farewell to the Deuce
    • 2001 |
      Generazioni d'amore: Le quattro Americhe di Fernanda Pivano
    • 2001 |
      Literárky - Zápas o mantinely
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      Sleep in a Nest of Flames
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      The Praise of Folly
    • 2000 |
      As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
    • 2000 |
      Condo Painting
    • 2000 |
      The Third Mind
    • 1999 |
      The Source
    • 1998 |
      Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
    • 1997 |
      A Poet on the Lower East Side: A Docu-Diary on Allen Ginsberg
    • 1996 |
      The Coney Island of Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    • 1994 |
      ChickenHawk
    • 1994 |
      Monument à Félix Guattari
    • 1994 |
      Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider
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      Le cow boy et l'indien
    • 1993 |
      Road Scholar
    • 1990 |
      Berkeley in the Sixties
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      Silence = Death
    • 1989 |
      Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
    • 1989 |
      Heavy Petting
    • 1988 |
      Growing Up in America
    • 1986 |
      He Stands in the Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
    • 1986 |
      What Happened to Kerouac?
    • 1986 |
      William Carlos Williams
    • 1985 |
      It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizenas Lawyer
    • 1984 |
      West Coast Beat and Beyond
    • 1983 |
      Burroughs: The Movie
    • 1980 |
      Mahagonny
    • 1979 |
      Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
    • 1979 |
      The War at Home
    • 1978 |
      Festival of Bards
    • 1973 |
      Pickup's Tricks
    • 1972 |
      Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
    • 1971 |
      Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
    • 1971 |
      Johnny Minotaur
    • 1969 |
      Bed Peace
    • 1968 |
      Me and My Brother
    • 1968 |
      Underground New York
    • 1966 |
      Chappaquaas Messiah
    • 1965 |
      Dylan Speaks
    • 1964 |
      Couch

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