Michael McClure
October 20, 1932 (92 years old) in Marysville, Kansas, USA
Michael McClure (October 20, 1932 – May 4, 2020) was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, which was barely fictionalized in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums. He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and was immortalized as Pat McLear in Kerouac's Big Sur.
Known For
Credits
- 2012 · Doors: Mr. Mojo Risin' - The Story of L.A. Woman as Self
- 2010 · Rock Poet: Jim Morrison as Self
- 2009 · Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder as Self
- 1999 · The Source as Self
- 1998 · The King of Queens as Waiter
- 1997 · Classic Albums as Self - Friend and Poet
- 1982 · Poetry in Motion as Self
- 1978 · The Last Waltz as Self
- 1978 · Visions of a City as Himself
- 1971 · The Hired Hand as Plummer
- 1971 · Maidstone as
- 1969 · Lions Love as The Beard Writer (uncredited)
- 1968 · Beyond the Law as Grahr
- 1967 · Be-In as Self
- 1967 · Liberty Crown as Himself
- 1965 · Two: Creeley/McClure as
- 1958 · Triptych in Four Parts as
- 1957 · Spectre Mystagogic as