Actor

Alan Watts

Birthday: January 6, 1915

Born in: 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, 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.

Movie Credits

The Monkey Conflict (2024) as Storyteller
Age: 109
Until There Was Nothing (2020) as Narrator
Age: 105
Play (2018) as Self (voice recording)
Age: 103
Everything (2017) as Narrator (archive footage)
Age: 102
Zen Dog (2016) as Alan Watts (voice)
Age: 101
Zen: The Best of Alan Watts (1994) as Himself
Age: 78
Work as Play (1973) as Himself
Age: 57
Time and the More It Changes (1972) as Self
Age: 57
Conversation with Myself (1972) as Himself
Age: 56
The Art of Meditation (1971) as Himself
Age: 56
Exhale (Unknown) as (voice)
Age: Unknown
The Flow of Zen (1969) as Narrator
Age: 53
Zen and Now (1969) as Narrator
Age: 53
Buddhism, Man and Nature (1968) as Narrator
Age: 52