Alan Watts
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 6, 1915
- Died
- November 16, 1973 (aged 58)
- Birthplace
- Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Exhale
Movie · as (voice)
TRUST THE UNIVERSE: The Philosophy of Alan Watts
Movie · as Himself - Voice
The Monkey Conflict
Movie · as Storyteller
Until There Was Nothing
Movie · as Narrator
Play
Movie · as Self (voice recording)
Everything
Movie · as Narrator (archive footage)
Zen Dog
Movie · as Alan Watts (voice)
Zen: The Best of Alan Watts
Movie · as Himself
Work as Play
Movie · as Himself
Conversation with Myself
Movie · as Himself
Time and the More It Changes
Movie · as Self
The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts
TV · as Alan Watts · 12 eps
The Art of Meditation
Movie · as Himself
The Flow of Zen
Movie · as Narrator
Zen and Now
Movie · as Narrator
Buddhism, Man and Nature
Movie · as Narrator
Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life
TV · as Alan Watts · 18 eps