Alan Watts
Birthday
1915/01/06
Day of death
1973/11/16 (58 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
Also know as
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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.
Acting
(2018) Play
as Self (voice recording)
(1972) Conversation with Myself
as Himself
(1971) The Art of Meditation
as Himself
(1973) Work as Play
as Himself
(2016) Zen Dog
as Alan Watts (voice)
(2024) The Monkey Conflict
as Storyteller
(1969) Flow of Zen
as Narrator
(2020) Until There Was Nothing
as Narrator
(1994) Zen: The Best of Alan Watts
as Himself
(1968) Buddhism, Man and Nature
as Narrator
(1969) Zen and Now
as Narrator
(2017) Everything
as Himself
(1972) Time and the More It Changes
as Self
(1972) The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts
as Alan Watts
(1959) Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life
as Alan Watts