Allen Ginsberg
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as The Oracle of Delphi Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese 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.
Filmography
Howl
as Self
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
as Self (uncredited)
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
as Self
Take Your Pills
as Self (archive footage)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
as The Oracle of Delphi
The Velvet Underground
as Self (archive footage)
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self (archive footage)
How the Beatles Changed the World
as Self (archive footage)
Before Stonewall
as Self
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
as Self (archive footage)
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self (archive footage)
Pull My Daisy
as Alan
Burroughs: The Movie
as Self
Ciao! Manhattan
as Self
Lost, Lost, Lost
as Self
We Can't Go Home Again
as Allen
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
as Self (archive footage)
The Cockettes
as Self (archive footage)
Guns of the Trees
as Self (voice)