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.​

KNOWN FOR

The Dick Cavett Show
1972
Good Will Hunting
1997
New York
1999
70 Years of Youth Revolt
2020
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
1990
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023
Howl
2010
One to One: John & Yoko
2025
Condo Painting
2000
How the Beatles Changed the World
2017
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
134
Directing
1
Writing
3
Sound
3
Crew
3
2026
Nova '78
as Self (archive footage)
2026
Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC
as Self
2026
ALLEN & AI
2026
May Day x 4
as Self · unreleased
2025
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
as Self (archive footage)
2025
One to One: John & Yoko
as Self (archive footage)
2025
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
as Self - poet
2024
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
as Self (archive footage)
2024
A Supermarket in California
as Self (voice) (archive)
2023
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Why Is We Americans?
as Self (archive footage)
2021
The Velvet Underground
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Symphony Of The Invisible
as Self (voice) (archive)
2020
70 Years of Youth Revolt
as Self (archive footage)
2019
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
as The Oracle of Delphi
2018
Take Your Pills
as Self (archive footage)
2018
A Walking Tour of the East Village 1985
as Self
2017
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
as Self (archive footage)
2017
How the Beatles Changed the World
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
as Self (archive footage)
2015
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
as Self (archive footage)
2015
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2014
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Beat Generation
as Self (archive footage)
2014
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Norman Mailer: The American
as Self (archive footage)
2012
The Beat Hotel
as Self (archive footage)
2011
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Howl
as Self
2010
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
as Self (archive footage)
2009
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
as Self (archive footage)
2007
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
as Self (archive footage)
2007
65 Revisited
as Self (archive footage)
2006
To John With Love
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Poets at the Living Theater
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Allen Ginsberg Sings Blues
2005
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
as Self
2004
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
as Self (archive footage)
2003
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
as Self (archive footage)
2002
American Magus
as Self (archive footage)
2002
The Cockettes
as Self (archive footage)
2000
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Condo Painting
as Self (archive footage)
1999
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
as Self (archive footage)
1999
The Source
as Self (archive footage)
1999
New York
as Self - Commentator
1998
Brakhage
as Self (archive footage)
1997
A Poet from the Lower East Side
as Self
1997
No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
as Self (archive footage)
1997
Happy Birthday to John
as Self
1997
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
as Self
1997
Birth of a Nation
as Self
1997
Ballad of the Skeletons
as Self
1997
U2: A Year in Pop
as Self
1997
On the Road to Desolation
as Self (archive footage)
1995
Van Gogh's Ear
as Self
1994
Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys
as Self
1994
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
as Self (archive footage)
1994
Jonas in the Desert
as Self
1994
Moving Pictures
as Self
1994
An Autumn Wind
as Self
1993
Road Scholar
as Self
1990
Berkeley in the Sixties
as Self
1990
Silence = Death
as Self
1990
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
as Self
1989
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
as Self
1989
Heavy Petting
as Self
1989
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
as Self
1989
Growing Up in America
as Self
1988
Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman
as Self
1987
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today
as Self
1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
1986
Autumn Ritual
as Self
1986
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
as Self
1985
All Star Video
as Self (archive footage)
1985
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
as Lawyer
1984
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
as Self
1984
Burroughs: The Movie
as Self
1984
Before Stonewall
as Self
1984
Ginsberg/Corso Tapes
as Self
1983
This Song for Jack
as Self
1982
Poetry in Motion
as Self
1982
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint
as Self
1981
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
as Self
1980
La marche gaie
as Self
1980
Lake Placid '80
as Self
1980
No. 18: Mahagonny
as Self
1980
The Beats: An Existential Comedy
1979
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
as Self
1979
Gay March on Washington
as Self
1978
Renaldo and Clara
as The Father
1978
Thot-Fal'N
as Self
1977
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
as Self
1976
Lost, Lost, Lost
as Self
1976
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades
1974
Suite 212
as Self
1973
We Can't Go Home Again
as Allen
1973
Global Groove
as Self
1973
Pickup's Tricks
as Self
1973
Ciao! Manhattan
as Self
1972
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1971
Johnny Minotaur
1971
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
as Self
1971
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
as Self
1969
Me and My Brother
as Self
1969
The Fall
as Self
1969
Bed Peace
as Self
1968
A.G.
as Self
1968
Yippie
as Self
1968
Underground New York
as Self
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self (archive footage)
1968
Chicago
as Self
1967
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
as Self (uncredited)
1967
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
as Self
1967
Ah, Sunflower
as Self
1967
Be-In
as Self
1967
Herostratus
as Poet (voice)
1967
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
as Self (archive footage)
1967
Hare Krishna
as Self
1967
Joan of Arc
as Self
1967
Anatomy of Violence
as Self
1966
Chappaqua
as Messiah
1966
Galaxie
as Self
1965
Wholly Communion
as Self
1965
Dylan Speaks
as Self (archive footage)
1965
He! Viva Dada
as Self
1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
as Self
1965
Allan for Allan
as Self
1964
Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
1964
Couch
as Self
1961
Guns of the Trees
as Self (voice)
1959
Pull My Daisy
as Alan