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Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary
  • Name: Timothy Leary
  • Birthday: 1920-10-22
  • Place of birth: Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
  • Popularity: 0.149
Biography: Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions. Leary conducted experiments under the Harvard Psilocybin Project during American legality of LSD and psilocybin, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Leary's colleague, Richard Alpert, was fired from Harvard University on May 27, 1963 for giving psilocybin to an undergraduate student. Leary was planning to leave Harvard when his teaching contract expired in June, the following month. He was fired, for "failure to keep classroom appointments", with his pay docked on April 30.... Read More

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John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office   as  Self (archive footage) 2025-01-31
Larry Flynt for President   as  Self (archive footage) 2021-06-12
Surviving You, Always   as  Self (voice) 2021-02-04
My Psychedelic Love Story   as  Self (archive footage) 2020-10-22
Manson: Music From an Unsound Mind   as  Self (archive footage) 2019-08-13
How the Beatles Changed the World   as  Self (archive footage) 2017-10-23
HyperNormalisation   as  Self (archive footage) 2016-10-25
Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary   as  Self (archive footage) 2016-08-26
Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne   as  Self (archive footage) 2016-03-13
The Transcendental Object at the End of Time 2014-11-16
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches   as  Self 2013-11-23
There Is No Plane to Zagreb   as  Himself 2012-11-20
Fix: The Ministry Movie   as  Self 2011-07-21
Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey   as  Self (archive footage) 2008-04-19
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying   as  Self 2008-03-13
Hippies   as  Self (archive footage) 2007-06-12
John & Yoko Bed-In   as  Self 2006-11-01
Tom Snyder's Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show   as  Self 2006-09-26
Hofmann's Potion: The Pioneers of LSD   as  Self 2002-09-01
John & Yoko's Year of Peace   as  Self (archive footage) 2000-01-01
Conceiving Ada   as  Sims 1999-02-19
The Source   as  Self 1999-01-23
Beyond Life: Timothy Leary Lives   as  himself 1998-12-08
Anarchy TV 1998-01-31
Cityscrapes: Los Angeles   as  Philip 1996-01-11
Synthetic Pleasures   as  Self 1995-09-13
How To Operate Your Brain 1994-11-04
Energy!!! The Movie   as  Robert Pearce 1993-07-22
Stuff   as  Self 1993-05-19
Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me   as  Mr. Jones 1992-05-21
Roadside Prophets   as  Salvadore 1992-03-27
Silicon Valley Story   as  The Good Venture Capitalist 1992-01-01
Ted & Venus   as  Judge William H. Converse 1991-08-08
Night Visions   as  New Age Minister 1990-11-30
Fatal Skies   as  Buddy 1990-07-18
Expanding Visions: An Introduction to the New Age Movement 1990-02-14
Cyberpunk   as  Himself 1990-01-28
Rude Awakening   as  Diner at Ronnie's 1989-08-16
Growing Up in America   as  Self 1989-04-16
Shocker   as  TV Evangelist 1989-03-23
Medium Rare   as  Dr. Kyle 1987-03-04
Return Engagement   as  Self 1983-07-09
We're All Devo   as  Dr. Byrthfood 1983-01-01
Nice Dreams   as  Self 1981-07-24
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds   as  Self 1979-10-01
Mission Mind Control   as  Self 1979-01-30
At Folsom Prison with Dr. Timothy Leary   as  Himself 1973-01-01
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family   as  Self 1971-04-11
Bed Peace   as  Self 1969-03-24
LSD: Trip to Where?   as  self 1968-01-01
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out   as  The Guide 1967-07-16
NBC television special: The Pursuit of Pleasure   as  Self 1967-05-08
Be-In   as  Self 1967-02-01
Bill's Hat 1967-01-01
How To Go Out of Your Mind: The LSD Crisis   as  Himself 1966-08-28
The Psychedelic Experience   as  Narrator 1965-01-23
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You 1964-12-31