Allen Ginsberg

Known for: Acting
Born: June 3, 1926, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Died: April 5, 1997
Movies: 135

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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Upcoming Allen Ginsberg Movies

May Day x 4

2026

November 5, 2026

Best-Known Movies

6.5

Howl

2010

7.4

Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back

1967

6.5

Take Your Pills

2018

7.0

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

2019

7.8

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

2005

6.8

The Velvet Underground

2021

7.8

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

2000

7.3

How the Beatles Changed the World

2017

6.5

Before Stonewall

1984

6.6

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

2010

Filmography

2026	May Day x 4	Self
2026	Nova '78	Self (archive footage)
2026	ALLEN & AI
2026	Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC	Self
2025	castelporziano ostia dei poeti	Self - poet
2025	One to One: John & Yoko	Self (archive footage)
2025	John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office	Self (archive footage)
2024	A Supermarket in California	Self (voice) (archive)
2024	Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri	Self (archive footage)
2023	Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV	Self (archive footage)
2022	Why Is We Americans?	Self (archive footage)
2021	The Velvet Underground	Self (archive footage)
2020	Symphony Of The Invisible	Self (voice) (archive)
2019	Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese	The Oracle of Delphi
2018	A Walking Tour of the East Village 1985	Self
2018	Take Your Pills	Self (archive footage)
2017	Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel	Self (archive footage)
2017	How the Beatles Changed the World	Self (archive footage)
2015	Don't Blink - Robert Frank	Self (archive footage)
2015	A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015	William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine	Self (archive footage)
2014	The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain	Self (archive footage)
2014	Great Poets: In Their Own Words	Self (archive footage)
2014	Beat Generation	Self (archive footage)
2012	Norman Mailer: The American	Self (archive footage)
2012	The Beat Hotel	Self (archive footage)
2011	Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche	Self (archive footage)
2010	William S. Burroughs: A Man Within	Self (archive footage)
2010	Howl	Self
2009	Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder	Self (archive footage)
2008	Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell	Self (archive footage)
2008	Tim Leary: The Art of Dying	Self (archive footage)
2007	65 Revisited	Self (archive footage)
2007	The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music	Self (archive footage)
2006	To John With Love	Self (archive footage)
2006	Poets at the Living Theater	Self (archive footage)
2006	Allen Ginsberg Sings Blues
2005	No Direction Home: Bob Dylan	Self
2004	Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair	Self (archive footage)
2003	The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'	Self (archive footage)
2002	The Cockettes	Self (archive footage)
2002	American Magus	Self (archive footage)
2000	As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty	Self (archive footage)
2000	Condo Painting	Self (archive footage)
1999	Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles	Self (archive footage)
1999	The Source	Self (archive footage)
1998	Brakhage	Self (archive footage)
1997	No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg	Self (archive footage)
1997	Ballad of the Skeletons	Self
1997	On the Road to Desolation	Self (archive footage)
1997	Happy Birthday to John	Self
1997	Birth of a Nation	Self
1997	Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit	Self
1997	U2: A Year in Pop	Self
1997	A Poet from the Lower East Side	Self
1995	Van Gogh's Ear	Self
1994	Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys	Self
1994	The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg	Self (archive footage)
1994	An Autumn Wind	Self
1994	Jonas in the Desert	Self
1994	Moving Pictures	Self
1993	Road Scholar	Self
1990	Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections	Self
1990	Berkeley in the Sixties	Self
1990	Silence = Death	Self
1989	Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center	Self
1989	Heavy Petting	Self
1989	Growing Up in America	Self
1989	Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets	Self
1988	Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman	Self
1987	It Was Twenty Years Ago Today	Self
1986	Autumn Ritual	Self
1986	He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life	Self (archive footage)
1986	Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank	Self
1985	It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen	Lawyer
1985	All Star Video	Self (archive footage)
1984	Before Stonewall	Self
1984	Burroughs: The Movie	Self
1984	Good Morning, Mr. Orwell	Self
1984	Ginsberg/Corso Tapes	Self
1983	This Song for Jack	Self
1982	Poetry in Motion	Self
1982	Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint	Self
1981	Greetings from Washington, D.C.	Self
1980	No. 18: Mahagonny	Self
1980	The Beats: An Existential Comedy
1980	La marche gaie	Self
1980	Lake Placid '80	Self
1979	Gay March on Washington	Self
1979	Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds	Self
1978	Thot-Fal'N	Self
1978	Renaldo and Clara	The Father
1977	Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration	Self
1976	Lost, Lost, Lost	Self
1976	Une semaine dans la vie de camarades
1974	Suite 212	Self
1973	We Can't Go Home Again	Allen
1973	Ciao! Manhattan	Self
1973	Global Groove	Self
1973	Pickup's Tricks	Self
1971	Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally	Self
1971	Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family	Self
1971	Johnny Minotaur
1969	Bed Peace	Self
1969	Me and My Brother	Self
1969	The Fall	Self
1968	Yippie	Self
1968	A.G.	Self
1968	Diaries, Notes, and Sketches	Self (archive footage)
1968	Underground New York	Self
1968	Chicago	Self
1967	Anatomy of Violence	Self
1967	Tonite Let's All Make Love in London	Self
1967	Ah, Sunflower	Self
1967	Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out	Self (archive footage)
1967	Herostratus	Poet (voice)
1967	Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back	Self (uncredited)
1967	Hare Krishna	Self
1967	Be-In	Self
1967	Joan of Arc	Self
1966	Galaxie	Self
1966	Chappaqua	Messiah
1965	Wholly Communion	Self
1965	Dylan Speaks	Self (archive footage)
1965	Andy Warhol Screen Tests	Self
1965	Allan for Allan	Self
1965	He! Viva Dada	Self
1964	Couch	Self
1964	Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
1961	Guns of the Trees	Self (voice)
1959	Pull My Daisy	Alan

Directing, Writing & Producing

2024	A Supermarket in California	Screenplay
1997	Ballad of the Skeletons	Writer
1994	An Autumn Wind	Writer
1968	Yippie	Director

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