Jack Kerouac

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Mar 12, 1922 (103 years old)
Death date
Oct 21, 1969

Jack Kerouac

Known For

Take Your Pills
1h 27m
Movie 2018

Take Your Pills

In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better. But at what cost?

Beat Generation
0h 55m
Movie 2014

Beat Generation

Tells the story of the wonderful and long-lasting friendship between Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs that gave birth to the Beat Generation movement.

Il falso bugiardo
1h 18m
Movie 2008

Il falso bugiardo

Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became blockbusters throughout the world.

The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
0h 9m
Movie 2003

The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

A documentary about the film, I am Curious-Yellow (1967), and how it made it into the USA and changed film in USA forever by breaking the USA Obscenity Codes.

No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
0h 52m
Movie 1997

No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg

Witness the last days of the Beat poet whose works would capture the very essence of the 1960 counter-cultural movement in an informative documentary featuring Allan Ginsburg's final television interview as well as remarkable deathbed footage shot by underground cinema icon Jonas Mekas.

On the Road to Desolation
0h 50m
Movie 1997

On the Road to Desolation

Andrew O'Hagan looks at a critical point in the life of Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac. In 1956 he spent spent 63 soul-searching days as a fire-watcher on Washington state's Desolation Peak. After this stint he was never the same creative force again.

Biography

Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet.

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