Alan Watts
Known for Acting
Alan Wilson Watts was a British philosopher, writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularising Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst, England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California, where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies.
Filmography
Exhale
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as (voice)
Zen Dog
2016
as Alan Watts (voice)
The Flow of Zen
1969
as Narrator
The Art of Meditation
1971
as Himself
Work as Play
1973
as Himself
Conversation with Myself
1972
as Himself
Play
2018
as Self (voice recording)
Buddhism, Man and Nature
1968
as Narrator
Everything
2017
as Narrator (archive footage)
Time and the More It Changes
1972
as Self
The Monkey Conflict
2024
as Storyteller
Until There Was Nothing
2020
as Narrator
Zen and Now
1969
as Narrator
The Great Stream
2024
Original Story
Zen: The Best of Alan Watts
1994
as Himself