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Allen Ginsberg

Playwright / Poet / Writer / Screenwriter / Musician / Teacher / Photographer | * 06/03/1926 († 70, 04/05/1997) | Newark, New Jersey (United States of America (USA))
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Best known for his poem "Howl", Ginsberg denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized copies of "Howl" in 1956, and a subsequent obscenity trial in 1957 attracted widespread publicity due to the poem's language and descriptions of heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made (male) homosexual acts a crime in every state. The poem reflected Ginsberg's own sexuality and his relationships with a number of men, including Peter Orlovsky, his lifelong partner. Judge Clayton W. Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene, asking: "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabu... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Music | Drama

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Awards & Nominations for Allen Ginsberg

Guggenheim Fellowship National Book Award War Resisters League Peace Award National Book Award for Poetry Robert Frost Medal Golden Wreath National Book Award for Poetry Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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Movies with Allen Ginsberg as Actor(85)

as Self (archive footage)2023 Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
as himself2022 Why Is We Americans?
as Self (archive footage)2021 The Velvet Underground
as Self (archive footage)2017 Uncle Howard
as Self (archive footage)2017 How the Beatles Changed the World
as Self (archive footage)2017 Don't Blink: Robert Frank
as Self (archive footage)2014 The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
as Self (archive footage)2010 William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
as himself2010 Howl
as Himself (Archive Footage)2007 Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
as Self (archive footage)2007 65 Revisited
as himself2006 Dylan Speaks 1965
as Himself (archive footage)2004 Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
as Self (archive footage)2003 The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
as himself2002 American Magus
as Self (archive footage)2002 The Cockettes
as himself1999 The Source
as himself1997 Happy Birthday to John
as himself1997 U2: A Year in Pop
as himself1997 Birth of a Nation
as himself1994 Jonas in the Desert
as himself1994 ChickenHawk
as Himself (archive footage)1993 The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
as himself1993 Road Scholar
as himself1990 Silence = Death
as himself1989 Growing Up in America
as himself1989 Heavy Petting
as Self (archive footage)1985 All Star Video
as himself1984 Burroughs: The Movie
as himself1984 Before Stonewall
as himself1980 La marche gaie
as himself1978 Thot-Fal'N
as The Father1978 Renaldo and Clara
as himself1976 Lost, Lost, Lost
as himself1974 Suite 212
as himself1973 Ciao! Manhattan
as himself1969 Me and My Brother
as himself1968 Yippie
as Self (uncredited)1967 Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back
as Poet (voice)1967 Herostratus
as himself1967 Anatomy of Violence
as himself1967 Hare Krishna
1967 Be-In
as Messiah1966 Chappaqua
as himself1966 Galaxie
as himself1965 Wholly Communion
as himself1965 He! Viva Dada
as himself1964 Couch
as Self (voice)1961 Guns of the Trees
as Allen1959 Pull My Daisy

TV Shows/Series with Allen Ginsberg as Actor(2)

as Self (archive footage)2020 70 Years of Youth Revolt
as Self - Guest1968 The Dick Cavett Show

Movies with Allen Ginsberg as Crew(6)

Crew/Poem2013 Tropico
Sound/Music1997 Ballad of the Skeletons
Writing/Writer1997 Ballad of the Skeletons
Crew/Poem1969 Me and My Brother
Directing/Director1968 Yippie

Additional Information

Official websites:
Full Name: Allen Irwin Ginsberg
Born: Thursday, 06/03 1926 (June) in Newark, New Jersey (United States of America (USA))
Died: Saturday, 04/05 1997 (April) in New York City (aged: 70)
Zodiac sign: Gemini (Chinese zodiac sign: Tiger)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Montclair State University, Columbia University, Eastside High School
Employer: Brooklyn College
Member of: American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Record Label: Transatlantic Records
Father: Louis Ginsberg
Other names for Allen Ginsberg (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Irwin Allen Ginsberg"
Allen Ginsberg frequently works together with these people:
Jonas Mekas (43x, Crew)
Peter Orlovsky (13x, Actor)
Andy Warhol (12x, Crew)
Bob Dylan (11x, Actor)
Peter Whitehead (10x, Crew)
Morley Markson (9x, Crew)
Gregory Corso (9x, Actor)
Robert Frank (9x, Crew)
Timothy Leary (8x, Actor)
Yōko Ono (8x, Actress)
Janis Joplin (2x, Actress)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:308706, Added: 08/13/2018, Last updated: 03/10/2024