Alan Watts
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.
Acting
Movie
Zen Dog
as Alan Watts (voice)
2016
The Art of Meditation
as Himself
1971
Movie
Everything
as Narrator (archive footage)
2017
TV
The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts
as Alan Watts
1972
Movie
Play
as Self (voice recording)
2018
Conversation with Myself
as Himself
1972
Work as Play
as Himself
1973
Movie
The Flow of Zen
as Narrator
1969
Movie
Until There Was Nothing
as Narrator
2020
Zen: The Best of Alan Watts
as Himself
1994
Zen and Now
as Narrator
1969
Buddhism, Man and Nature
as Narrator
1968
Time and the More It Changes
as Self
1972
Movie
The Monkey Conflict
as Storyteller
2024
Exhale
as (voice)
Movie
TRUST THE UNIVERSE: The Philosophy of Alan Watts
as Himself - Voice
TV
Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life
as Alan Watts
1959