Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 06, 1915
Died
Nov 16, 1973
Place of Birth
Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
Credits
18 titles
Alan Watts
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
The Monkey Conflict
Storyteller
The Great Stream
Original Story
Until There Was Nothing
Narrator
Play
Self (voice recording)
Everything
Narrator (archive footage)
Zen Dog
Alan Watts (voice)
Zen: The Best of Alan Watts
Himself
Work as Play
Himself
The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts
Alan Watts
Time and the More It Changes
Self
Conversation with Myself
Himself
The Art of Meditation
Himself
The Flow of Zen
Narrator
Zen and Now
Narrator
Buddhism, Man and Nature
Narrator
Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life
Alan Watts
Exhale
(voice)
TRUST THE UNIVERSE: The Philosophy of Alan Watts
Himself - Voice