Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

Birthday: 1926-06-03

Deathday: 1997-04-05

Place of birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA

Also known as: Irwin Allen Ginsberg, Alan Ginsberg

imdb_id: nm0320091

Biography:

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.​

Played in movies:

Growing Up in America

Score: 10.0

65 Revisited

Score: 9.2

Beat Generation

Score: 9.2

Autumn Ritual

Score: 8.8

Renaldo and Clara

Score: 8.3

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

Score: 8.2

Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

Score: 8.1

Road Scholar

Score: 8.0

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Score: 8.0

Lake Placid '80

Score: 8.0

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

Score: 7.7

Global Groove

Score: 7.7

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

Score: 7.6

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Score: 7.5

It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen

Score: 7.5

Dont Look Back

Score: 7.4

One to One: John & Yoko

Score: 7.4

How the Beatles Changed the World

Score: 7.3

Guns of the Trees

Score: 7.2

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

Score: 7.1

Burroughs: The Movie

Score: 7.1

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

Score: 7.0

Bed Peace

Score: 7.0

Poetry in Motion

Score: 7.0

Don't Blink - Robert Frank

Score: 7.0

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

Score: 7.0

The Fall

Score: 7.0

Lost, Lost, Lost

Score: 7.0

Norman Mailer: The American

Score: 7.0

Brakhage

Score: 7.0

Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

Score: 6.9

Chappaqua

Score: 6.9

The Velvet Underground

Score: 6.9

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

Score: 6.7

Before Stonewall

Score: 6.7

The Cockettes

Score: 6.7

Couch

Score: 6.7

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections

Score: 6.5

All Star Video

Score: 6.5

Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

Score: 6.5

Take Your Pills

Score: 6.5

Howl

Score: 6.5

Me and My Brother

Score: 6.4

Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

Score: 6.4

Birth of a Nation

Score: 6.3

We Can't Go Home Again

Score: 6.3

ChickenHawk

Score: 6.2

Herostratus

Score: 6.2

Wholly Communion

Score: 6.1

Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally

Score: 6.0

Ballad of the Skeletons

Score: 6.0

This Song for Jack

Score: 6.0

Pull My Daisy

Score: 6.0

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

Score: 5.9

Berkeley in the Sixties

Score: 5.8

Heavy Petting

Score: 5.6

Ciao! Manhattan

Score: 5.6

Silence = Death

Score: 5.6

Jonas in the Desert

Score: 5.5

No. 18: Mahagonny

Score: 5.5

Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

Score: 5.5

Thot-Fal'N

Score: 5.4

Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

Score: 5.3

Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit

Score: 5.2

The Source

Score: 5.2

Yippie

Score: 5.1

A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol

Score: 5.0

Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

Score: 5.0

Hare Krishna

Score: 5.0

Be-In

Score: 5.0

Johnny Minotaur

Score: 5.0

Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

Score: 5.0

Happy Birthday to John

Score: 4.8

The Beat Hotel

Score: 4.5

La marche gaie

Score: 4.3

Van Gogh's Ear

Score: 4.0

Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

Score: 4.0

Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

Score: 2.8

No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg

Score: 1.0

Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles

Score: 1.0

Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman

Score: 0.0

Poets at the Living Theater

Score: 0.0

To John With Love

Score: 0.0

Moving Pictures

Score: 0.0

Ginsberg/Corso Tapes

Score: 0.0

On the Road to Desolation

Score: 0.0

Gay March on Washington

Score: 0.0

William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine

Score: 0.0

Chicago

Score: 0.0

Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank

Score: 0.0

U2: A Year in Pop

Score: 0.0

Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint

Score: 0.0

Anatomy of Violence

Score: 0.0

Symphony Of The Invisible

Score: 0.0

Summer of Love

Score: 0.0

Condo Painting

Score: 0.0

Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration

Score: 0.0

Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair

Score: 0.0

Allan for Allan

Score: 0.0

Joan of Arc

Score: 0.0

The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

Score: 0.0

He! Viva Dada

Score: 0.0

The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain

Score: 0.0

Underground New York

Score: 0.0

Dylan Speaks

Score: 0.0

The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

Score: 0.0

Tim Leary: The Art of Dying

Score: 0.0

Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes

Score: 0.0

A Supermarket in Californi

Score: 0.0

Une semaine dans la vie de camarades

Score: 0.0

Pickup's Tricks

Score: 0.0

Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri

Score: 0.0

Galaxie

Score: 0.0

Ah, Sunflower

Score: 0.0

New York in the Fifties

Score: 0.0

Great Poets: In Their Own Words

Score: 0.0

A Poet from the Lower East Side

Score: 0.0

Suite 212

Score: 0.0

Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center

Score: 0.0

A.G.

Score: 0.0

Why Is We Americans?

Score: 0.0

Greetings from Washington, D.C.

Score: 0.0

American Magus

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

New York: A Documentary Film

Score: 7.5

70 Years of Youth Revolt

Score: 7.3

The Dick Cavett Show

Score: 6.8