Alan Watts
Actor
- Born
- January 6, 1915 · Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
- Died
- November 16, 1973 (age 58)
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
Acting15
- 2024The Monkey Conflict as Storyteller
- 2020Until There Was Nothing as Narrator
- 2018Play as Self (voice recording)
- 2017Everything as Narrator (archive footage)
- 2016Zen Dog as Alan Watts (voice)
- 1994Zen: The Best of Alan Watts as Himself
- 1973Work as Play as Himself
- 1972Time and the More It Changes as Self
- 1972Conversation with Myself as Himself
- 1971The Art of Meditation