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Alan Watts
Chislehurst, Kent, England, UK
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,…
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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.
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2024
The Monkey Conflict
Movie Storyteller
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2024
The Great Stream
Movie Original Story
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2020
Until There Was Nothing
Movie Narrator
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2018
Play
Movie Self (voice recording)
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2017
Everything
Movie Narrator (archive footage)
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2016
Zen Dog
Movie Alan Watts (voice)
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1994
Zen: The Best of Alan Watts
Movie Himself
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1973
Work as Play
Movie Himself
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1972
The Essential Lectures of Alan Watts
TV show Alan Watts
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1972
Time and the More It Changes
Movie Self
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1972
Conversation with Myself
Movie Himself
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1971
The Art of Meditation
Movie Himself
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1969
The Flow of Zen
Movie Narrator
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1969
Zen and Now
Movie Narrator
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1968
Buddhism, Man and Nature
Movie Narrator
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1959
Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life
TV show Alan Watts
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Exhale
Movie (voice)
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TRUST THE UNIVERSE: The Philosophy of Alan Watts
Movie Himself - Voice
