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
Zen Dog
The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts
Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life
Everything
Play
The Flow of Zen
TRUST THE UNIVERSE: The Philosophy of Alan Watts
Until There Was Nothing
All Movies (15)
- The Monkey Conflict2024 · as Storyteller
- Until There Was Nothing2020 · as Narrator
- Play2018 · as Self (voice recording)
- Everything2017 · as Narrator (archive footage)
- Zen Dog2016 · as Alan Watts (voice)
- Zen: The Best of Alan Watts1994 · as Himself
- Work as Play1973 · as Himself
- Time and the More It Changes1972 · as Self
- Conversation with Myself1972 · as Himself
- The Art of Meditation1971 · as Himself
- The Flow of Zen1969 · as Narrator
- Zen and Now1969 · as Narrator
- Buddhism, Man and Nature1968 · as Narrator
- Exhale— · as (voice)
- TRUST THE UNIVERSE: The Philosophy of Alan Watts— · as Himself - Voice
All TV Shows (2)
- The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts1972 · as Alan Watts
- Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life1959 · as Alan Watts