Timothy Leary

Q: What is Timothy Leary most famous for?

Leary is most famous for his role in the 1960s counterculture movement and for popularizing the use of psychedelic drugs for spiritual and psychological exploration.

Q: Did Timothy Leary win any awards?

Leary did not win mainstream film or acting awards but received recognition for his contributions to psychology and drug policy reform.

Q: What are some of Timothy Leary's notable publications?

Leary authored several influential books, including 'The Psychedelic Experience' and 'Chaos and Cyber Culture,' which explore consciousness and the impact of psychedelics.

Q: How did Timothy Leary influence popular culture?

Leary's ideas about consciousness and psychedelics influenced music, literature, and social movements during the 1960s, making him a key figure in the counterculture.

Q: What was Timothy Leary's relationship with drugs?

Leary was a vocal advocate for the use of psychedelics, believing they could expand human consciousness and promote personal growth.

Q: What was Timothy Leary's estimated net worth?

Timothy Leary's estimated net worth was around 1 million USD at the time of his passing, reflecting his varied career and public engagements.

Q: What legacy did Timothy Leary leave behind?

Leary's legacy includes his impact on drug policy, psychology, and the counterculture movement, as well as ongoing discussions about the potential of psychedelics in therapy.

Known for

How to Change Your Mind (2022)

IMDb 7.9 / 10

2022 / Documentary, Mystery

Author Michael Pollan leads the way in this docuseries exploring the history and uses of psychedelics, including LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and mescaline.

Name

Timothy Leary

Height

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Born

22 February 1920, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Spouses

Joan Leary (1960–1970)

Children

3 children, including John Leary

Parents

George Leary, Ethel Leary

Estimated Net Worth

1 million USD

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Utah in the ’70s Take a trip back to Utah in the ’70s, when a new emerging culture clashed with tradition and institution. More...	Himself (archival footage)	Not rated
2025	Movie Nova '78 Resurrected through UK-led archival restoration NOVA 78' shows never-before-seen footage of the legendary Nova Convention where William Burroughs, Patti Smith,...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2025	Movie Medium Rare Cold Case A rookie detective and a drug-addicted archivist investigating unsolved murders from the past. An AI-animated cocaine rat assists them in...	Dr Kyle	Not rated
2025	Movie One to One: John & Yoko An exploration of the seminal and transformative 18 months that one of music’s most famous couples — John Lennon and...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2025	Movie John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office The daring experimenter Dr. John C. Lilly dedicated his life to radical self-investigation and unlocking the mysteries of consciousness and...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2021	Movie Larry Flynt for President Assembled from never before seen footage shot in 1983, this film documents controversial Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt's unlikely bid...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2021	Movie Surviving You, Always The proposed metaphysical highs of psychedelic drugs versus the harsh actualities of concrete metropolitan life. These two opposing realities form...	Self (voice)	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2020	Movie My Psychedelic Love Story An examination of the notorious high priest of LSD Timothy Leary through the eyes of his famed lover Joanna Harcourt-Smith.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2020	TV Helter Skelter: An American Myth The untold story behind cult leader Charles Manson and his followers' heinous crimes as told through interviews with former members,...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2020	TV History 101 Infographics and archival footage deliver bite-size history lessons on scientific breakthroughs, social movements and world-changing discoveries.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2019	Movie Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind The untold story of Charles Manson's obsession to become a rock star, his rise in the LA music scene, the...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2017	Movie How the Beatles Changed the World The fascinating story of the cultural, social, spiritual, and musical revolution ignited by the coming of the Beatles. Tracing the...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2016	Movie HyperNormalisation We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie....	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2016	Movie Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary Icons of '60s counterculture, Harvard psychologists Timothy Leary and Ram Dass became estranged until an illness inspired their fascinating reunion.	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2016	Movie Stupor Mundi: Livre 2, Les Hommes qui mangèrent la montagne A mental journey - historical, political, musical and metaphysical - in contemporary times, from the Sixties until nowadays.	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2014	Movie The Transcendental Object at the End of Time An audio-visual journey through the mind of Terence McKenna.	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2012	Movie There Is No Plane to Zagreb A retrospective of events in director Louis van Gasteren’s life from 1964 to 1969, filmed by him in that period...	Himself	Not rated
2011	Movie Fix: The Ministry Movie Provides an insider's view of the groundbreaking, outrageous, creative juggernaut that was the band Ministry - during their world tour...	Self	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2008	Movie Peyote to LSD: A Psychedelic Odyssey Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana Jones whose discoveries of hallucinogenic plants laid the foundation for...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2008	Movie Tim Leary: The Art of Dying LSD Guru Tim Leary teaches us all to die by dying himself in what he calls his "custom death". This...	Self	Not rated
2007	Movie Hippies The 1960's and 1970's were a time of change, a time of revolution, a time of the Hippies. Hippies reached...	Self (archive footage)	Not rated
2006	Movie John & Yoko Bed-In In May 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono held their famous Bed-In For Peace event. It was attended by many...	Self	Not rated
2006	Movie Tom Snyder's Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show While recorded in the late 70s and early 80s, the theme to this Tom Snyder release is icons of the...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2003	Movie The Net Explores the incredibly complex backstory of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber. This exquisitely crafted inquiry into the rationale of this...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2002	Movie Hofmann's Potion: The Pioneers of LSD Long before Timothy Leary urged a generation to "tune in, turn on and drop out," lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD,...	Self	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2000	Movie John & Yoko's Year of Peace The year: 1969. Headlines blare war and civil unrest while John Lennon and Yoko Ono are in love. The eccentic...	Self (archive footage)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1999	Movie Conceiving Ada Emmy Coer, a computer genius, devises a method of communicating with the past by tapping into undying information waves. She...	Sims	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1999	Movie The Source Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg...	Self	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1998	Movie Beyond Life: Timothy Leary Lives A film about Timothy Leary's life and death. Dr. Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 -- May 31, 1996) was...	himself	Not rated
1998	Movie Anarchy TV A group of anarchists use their public-access TV show to satirize the government until a right-wing preacher attempts to shut...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1996	Movie Timothy Leary's Dead Journalizing his final year before dying of cancer in May 1996, this documentary takes a sentimental walk down memory-lane to...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1996	Movie Cityscrapes: Los Angeles "CITYSCRAPES" takes you on a 24-hour voyeuristic journey through the bedrooms, bathrooms, bars, cars, clubs, restaurants and back alleys of...	Philip	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1995	Movie French Exit Davis meets Zina in a car wreck. Their immediate attraction for one another is put into jeopardy when they learn...	Herbal Ecstasy Guy	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1995	Movie Synthetic Pleasures Conceived as an electronic road movie, this documentary investigates cutting edge technologies and their influence on our culture as we...	Self	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1994	Movie How To Operate Your Brain How to Operate Your Brain, is a 29 minute, guided, electronic (spoken/musical) meditation. In it, Dr. Leary tries to impart...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1994	TV Space Ghost Coast to Coast A cartoon superhero interacts with live guests via his television set in this parody talk show based on 1960s Hanna-Barbera...	Self	TMDB 7.8 / 10
1994	Movie The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political activist...	Self	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1993	TV Frasier After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist...	Hank (voice)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1993	TV The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. A tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies' man and Harvard-educated smarty-britches roams from Frisco to Jalisco in pursuit of outlaws who killed...	Dr. Milo	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1993	Movie Energy!!! The Movie Starring Timothy Leary	Robert Pearce	Not rated
1993	Movie Stuff A 12-minute documentary about the house of RHCP guitarist John Frusciante. The film's main purpose was to depict the chaos...	Self	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1992	Movie Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Eli is a burglar who is caught in the act by Twinkle, an heiress who coerces him into a sexual...	Mr. Jones	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1992	Movie Roadside Prophets On a quest to fulfill a friend's last wish, Joe takes to the desert road on his 1957 Harley-Davidson. Joined...	Salvadore	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1992	Movie Silicon Valley Story A playful story about the microcircuitry of love.	The Good Venture Capitalist	Not rated
1991	Movie Ted & Venus Ted is a 1970s Venice Beach poet who spends his days drifting along the boardwalk, reciting his poetry to anyone...	Judge William H. Converse	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1990	Movie Night Visions A Los Angeles detective teams up with a psychic to hunt down a serial killer.	New Age Minister	TMDB 4.6 / 10
1990	TV Super Force Super Force is an action-adventure TV series about a former astronaut who uses an advanced combat suit and motorcycle to...	Police Commissioner Pfister	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1990	Movie Fatal Skies Skydivers drop in on a suspicious quarry.	Buddy	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1990	TV Blossom Blossom Russo is a highly intelligent and spunky teenager. The youngest of three, she lives with her divorced musician father,...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1990	Movie Expanding Visions: An Introduction to the New Age Movement This video covers the Los Angeles Whole Life Expo, in which cultural leaders of importance to the New Age movement...	Unknown character	Not rated
1990	Movie Cyberpunk Stylistic documentary about the cyberpunk movement. William Gibson, author of cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, and Timothy Leary, famous advocate of psychedelic...	Himself	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1989	TV Prisoners of Gravity Prisoners of Gravity was a Canadian public broadcasting television news magazine program that explored speculative fiction — science fiction, fantasy,...	Self	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1989	Movie Rude Awakening In the later 1960s, two hippies are forced to leave their friends as they are wanted by the FBI, who...	Diner at Ronnie's	TMDB 4.7 / 10
1989	Movie Growing Up in America Filmmaker Morley Markson shows Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, and other '60s rebels, then and now in...	Self	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1989	Movie Shocker About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms into a terrifying energy source....	TV Evangelist	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1987	Movie Medium Rare Death of his wife's pet poodle and a threatening movie producer create a world of trouble for a middle-aged B-movie...	Dr. Kyle	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1985	TV Moonlighting After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency....	Wynn Deaupayne	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1983	Movie Return Engagement Filmmaker Alan Rudolph shows Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy and hippie guru Timothy Leary, alone and together onstage.	Self	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1983	Movie We're All Devo Like The Men Who Make the Music, We're All Devo! has a storyline to tie the videos together. In it,...	Dr. Byrthfood	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1981	Movie Nice Dreams Nice Dreams - it rhymes with ice creams. And that's what Cheech and Chong are selling in this thoroughly wacky...	Self	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1979	Movie Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pursuit of the...	Self	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1979	Movie Mission Mind Control Uncovering government agencies (especially the CIA) that secretly tested the effects of LSD on humans.	Self	Not rated
1973	Movie At Folsom Prison with Dr. Timothy Leary At Folsom Prison with Dr. Timothy Leary is an extraordinary counterculture document, filmed during Leary’s incarceration there. Under 30 minutes...	Himself	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1971	Movie Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family The title of this Canadian documentary may have some relation to Canadian Marshall McLuhan's theories. It combines interview with famous...	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1969	Movie Bed Peace John and Yoko in the presidential suite at the Hilton Amsterdam, which they had decorated with hand-drawn signs above their...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1968	Movie Diaries, Notes, and Sketches Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York,...	Self	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1968	Movie LSD: Trip to Where? LSD: Trip to Where? is a 1968 film depicting the experiences of three sailors who experiment with LSD and marijuana....	self	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1967	Movie Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out 5 psychedelic short films, broadcast on the French/German tv channel "arte" on 2007-07-16 "Be-In" USA 1967, 7 min "Beatles Electronique"...	The Guide	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1967	Movie NBC television special: The Pursuit of Pleasure A special documentary dealing with topics as narcotics, sex, promiscuity, fads, pop culture and morals in 1967.	Self	Not rated
1967	Movie Be-In Captures the spirit and essence of the great San Francisco Human Be-In of January 14, 1967. Ten thousand people imbued...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1967	Movie Bill's Hat "The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and...	Unknown character	Not rated
1966	Movie How To Go Out of Your Mind: The LSD Crisis Back in the 1960's a former Harvard professor stopped giving A's, B's and C's and started handing out LSD. his...	Himself	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1965	Movie The Psychedelic Experience Experimental movie, where a man comes home and experiences LSD. His kaleidoscopic visions follow, with readings inspired by the Tibethan...	Narrator	Not rated
1964	Movie You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You Description by D.A Pennebaker: "This movie is something of a mystery. Timothy Leary was getting married to a model named...	Unknown character	Not rated
1962	TV The Merv Griffin Show	Self	TMDB 6.6 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
1994	Movie How To Operate Your Brain How to Operate Your Brain, is a 29 minute, guided, electronic (spoken/musical) meditation. In it, Dr. Leary tries to impart...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1967	Movie Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out 5 psychedelic short films, broadcast on the French/German tv channel "arte" on 2007-07-16 "Be-In" USA 1967, 7 min "Beatles Electronique"...	Writer Writing	TMDB 7.0 / 10

Utah in the ’70s

2026

Nova '78

2025

Medium Rare Cold Case

2025

One to One: John & Yoko

2025 / TMDB 7.2

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

2025 / TMDB 6.7

Larry Flynt for President

2021 / TMDB 5.2

Got a question about Timothy Leary?

What was Timothy Leary's early career like?

Timothy Leary began his career as a psychologist and lecturer at Harvard University, where he conducted experiments on the effects of psychedelics.

What is Timothy Leary most famous for?

Did Timothy Leary win any awards?

What are some of Timothy Leary's notable publications?

How did Timothy Leary influence popular culture?

What was Timothy Leary's relationship with drugs?

What was Timothy Leary's estimated net worth?

What legacy did Timothy Leary leave behind?