Dr. Timothy Leary
Bio: For a self-styled countercultural guru, Dr. Timothy Leary led a highly disciplined and scrupulously conformist early life. After being asked to leave West Point and then being expelled from the University of Alabama, Leary returned to the armed services, then committed himself to diligent study in the field of psychology, earning his PhD from the University of… More Bio: For a self-styled countercultural guru, Dr. Timothy Leary led a highly disciplined and scrupulously conformist early life. After being asked to leave West Point and then being expelled from the University of Alabama, Leary returned to the armed services, then committed himself to diligent study in the field of psychology, earning his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. During the 1950s, he gained a nationwide reputation for his books on personality disorders, and was a widely respected teacher/lecturer at Harvard University. Then, in the early 1960s, he developed a fascination for mind-expanding drugs; it was he who popularized the phrase "psychedelic." During the Youth Revolution of the 1960s, Leary was at the forefront with his advocacy of recreational use of LSD. His catchphrase was "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out," which also served as the title of a short film he produced and wrote in 1966. His much-publicized testing and flaunting of marijuana laws led to several arrests, which he welcomed with unbounded delight. Oddly, throughout his experimentation with and advocacy for drug use, he remained a prolific writer and lecturer and was worshipped by a large percentage of those under 30. As the '60s faded from view, so did Dr. Leary. In 1981, he made his formal film debut in Cheech and Chong's Nice Dreams then went on to essentially play himself in such independently-produced efforts as Roadside Prophet (1982) and Shocker (1988). To the very last, the puckish Leary remained good copy. Upon learning that he had inoperable cancer, he publicly declared how excited he was at the prospect of experiencing the "ultimate trip." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Filmography
-
Doc (2008)
- Actor
- 78%
-
Anarchy TV (1998)
- Actor
-
Conceiving Ada (1997)
- Sims
- 82%
-
Timothy Leary's Last Trip (1997)
- Himself
-
Timothy Leary's Dead (1996)
- Actor
- 71%
- See all 18 films
Dr. Timothy Leary Videos
Nice Dreams
2 minutes 18 seconds
Shocker
1 minutes 27 seconds
Rude Awakening
2 minutes 13 seconds
Anarchy Tv
3 minutes 39 seconds
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
2 minutes 3 seconds
Born Today
- Hyun-kyoon Lee (33 years old)
- Satsuki Yukino (43 years old)
- Bill Robinson (135 years old)
- Patti D'Arbanville (62 years old)
- Ian McKellen (74 years old)
- Connie Sellecca (58 years old)
- Jamie Kennedy (43 years old)
- Corbin Allred (34 years old)
- Kevin Heffernan (45 years old)
- Cillian Murphy (37 years old)
- Kick Gurry (35 years old)
- Molly Sims (40 years old)
- Lauryn Hill (38 years old)
- Mike Myers (50 years old)
- Karan Johar (41 years old)
- Reiko Ike (60 years old)
- Ethan Suplee (37 years old)
- Neil Marshall (43 years old)
- Frank Oz (69 years old)
- Demetri Martin (40 years old)
- Anne Heche (44 years old)
- Juri Ueno (27 years old)
- Claude Akins (87 years old)
- Kunal Khemu (30 years old)
- See more (24)
