Alan Watts
Actor
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.
Filmography
The Art of Meditation
as Himself 1971
Everything
as Narrator (archive footage) 2017
Play
as Self (voice recording) 2018
Work as Play
as Himself 1973
Conversation with Myself
as Himself 1972
The Flow of Zen
as Narrator 1969
Until There Was Nothing
as Narrator 2020
Buddhism, Man and Nature
as Narrator 1968
Zen: The Best of Alan Watts
as Himself 1994
Zen and Now
as Narrator 1969
Time and the More It Changes
as Self 1972
The Monkey Conflict
as Storyteller 2024