Michael McClure
Actor
Biography
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.
Filmography
The Hired Hand
as Plummer 1971
Lions Love
as The Beard Writer (uncredited) 1969
Two: Creeley/McClure
1965
The Source
as Self 1999
Maidstone
1971
Doors: Mr. Mojo Risin' - The Story of L.A. Woman
as Self 2012
Beyond the Law
as Grahr 1968
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
as Self 2009
Be-In
as Self 1967
Rock Poet: Jim Morrison
as Self 2010
Visions of a City
as Himself 1978
Poetry in Motion
as Self 1982
Spectre Mystagogic
1957
Triptych in Four Parts
1958