Timothy Leary — Actor (16)
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
director: Jonas Mekas actor: Timothy Leary / Ed Emshwiller
other title: Walden
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols. Blending everyday encounters with portraits of the avant-garde art scene, it forms an epic, personal meditation on community, creativity, and the passage of time.
Shocker (1989) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb
Shocker
director: Wes Craven actor: Michael Murphy / Mitch Pileggi
other title: Sotto shock / Shocker, 100.000 voltios de terror
About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms into a terrifying energy source. Only young athlete Jonathan Parker, with an uncanny connection to him through bizarre dreams, can fight the powerful demon.
The Net (2003) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Das Netz
director: Lutz Dammbeck actor: Eva Mattes / Tom Vogt
other title: Das Netz - Unabomber/LSD/Internet / Das Netz
Explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this mythic figure situates him within a late 20th century web of technology—a system that he grew to oppose. A marvelously subversive approach to the history of the Internet, this insightful documentary combines speculative travelogue and investigative journalism to trace contrasting countercultural responses to the cybernetic revolution.
Be-In (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Be-In
director: Jerry Abrams actor: Allen Ginsberg / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Captures the spirit and essence of the great San Francisco Human Be-In of January 14, 1967. Ten thousand people imbued with peace, love and euphoria. Set to hard rock such as only San Francisco blues can produce. BE-IN contains Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Timothy Leary, Michael McClure, Lenore Kandel and Buddha. Music by Blue Cheer.
Cyberpunk (1990) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Cyberpunk
director: Marianne Schaefer Trench actor: William Gibson / Timothy Leary
Stylistic documentary about the cyberpunk movement. William Gibson, author of cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, and Timothy Leary, famous advocate of psychedelic drugs, share their thoughts on the future of society and technology.
Mission Mind Control (1979) [Movie] TMDB
Mission Mind Control
director: Richard Roy actor: Paul Altmeyer / John Gittinger
Uncovering government agencies (especially the CIA) that secretly tested the effects of LSD on humans.
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You (1964) [Movie] TMDB
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
director: D. A. Pennebaker actor: Timothy Leary / Monti Rock III
Description by D.A Pennebaker: "This movie is something of a mystery. Timothy Leary was getting married to a model named Nena Von Schlebrugge up in Millbrook, New York at the Hitchcock house, where Leary had been carrying on his hallucinogenic revelries for the past year or so after leaving Harvard. It was rumored that this was going to be the wedding of the season, the wedding of Mr. And Mrs. Swing as Cab Calloway put it. Blackwood took me downtown to meet Monte Rock III who was singing at Trudy Heller’s but who was also a very pricey and off-the-wall hairdresser and was in fact going to be doing the bride’s hair. Nena’s brother, Bjorn, known as the “Baron” was a friend of the Hitchcock’s, as was I, and the idea of going along and filming the wedding seemed not unwarranted. I’ve always wanted to film someone getting married."
Stuff (1993) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Stuff
director: Johnny Depp / Gibby Haynes actor: John Frusciante / Timothy Leary
A 12-minute documentary about the house of RHCP guitarist John Frusciante. The film's main purpose was to depict the chaos & instability in his life.
At Folsom Prison with Dr. Timothy Leary (1973) [Movie] TMDB
At Folsom Prison with Dr. Timothy Leary
director: Tom Bullock / Joanna Leary actor: Timothy Leary
At Folsom Prison with Dr. Timothy Leary is an extraordinary counterculture document, filmed during Leary’s incarceration there. Under 30 minutes in length, this 1973 film shows Leary at his most engaging and personable. It’s a testament to his considerable charm that he was able to pull off such a performance, considering that the prison warden and other officials were sitting across the room listening as this was filmed. Leary discusses his jailbreak (intimating that the daughter of a United States senator he refuses to name helped him), the revolution in consciousness and drugs, Eldridge Cleaver and what it feels like to be an imprisoned philosopher.
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
director: Morley Markson actor: Don Cox / Buckminster Fuller
The title of this Canadian documentary may have some relation to Canadian Marshall McLuhan's theories. It combines interview with famous U.S. militants of the '60s, such as Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, with reenactments of their Chicago trials (i.e., the "Chicago Eight," etc.). Other figures of cultural interest from the time, including Alan Ginsberg and Buckminster Fuller, are interviewed or featured. The filmmaker indicates his belief that powerful forces in the U.S. government worked together to suppress American radicals. This view, widely disbelieved at the time, has since been confirmed.
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
director: Costanzo Allione actor: Allen Ginsberg / Peter Orlovsky
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pursuit of the American dream met in New York City. Associated through mutual friendships, these cultural dissidents looked for new ways and means to express themselves. Soon their writings found an audience and the American media took notice, dubbing them the Beat Generation. Members of this group included writers Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg. a trinity that would ultimately influence the works of others during that era, including the "hippie" movement of the '60s. In this 55-minute video narrated by Allen Ginsberg, members of the Beat Generation (including the aforementioned Burroughs, Anne Waldman, Peter Orlovsky, Amiri Baraka, Diane Di Prima, and Timothy Leary) are reunited at Naropa University in Boulder, CO during the late 1970's to share their works and influence a new generation of young American bohemians.
LSD: Trip to Where? (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
LSD: Trip to Where?
actor: Richard Lynch / Timothy Leary
LSD: Trip to Where? is a 1968 film depicting the experiences of three sailors who experiment with LSD and marijuana. The film explores the impact of their drug use on themselves and their peers aboard a military vessel, highlighting the perceived dangers associated with these substances during that era.
The Psychedelic Experience (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Psychedelic Experience
director: Allen Willis / Jean Millay actor: Timothy Leary / Ralph Metzner
Experimental movie, where a man comes home and experiences LSD. His kaleidoscopic visions follow, with readings inspired by the Tibethan Book of the Dead.
Bed Peace (1969) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Bed Peace
director: John Lennon / Yoko Ono actor: John Lennon / Yoko Ono
John and Yoko in the presidential suite at the Hilton Amsterdam, which they had decorated with hand-drawn signs above their bed reading "Bed Peace." They invited the global press into their room to discuss peace for 12 hours every day.
Surviving You, Always (2021) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Surviving You, Always
The proposed metaphysical highs of psychedelic drugs versus the harsh actualities of concrete metropolitan life. These two opposing realities form the backdrop of an adolescent encounter in the city of London, told through still images and written narration.