
Person
Neal Cassady
Acting · 1926–1968 · Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Biography
Neal Cassady was a major figure of the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the psychedelic and counterculture movements of the 1960s. He served as the model for the character Dean Moriarty in the 1957 version of Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road. In many of Kerouac's later books, Cassady is represented by the character Cody Pomeray. Cassady also appeared in Allen Ginsberg's poems, and in several other works of literature by other writers.
Known for

The Last Time I Committed Suicide
Book

Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
Self

Love Always, Carolyn
Self (archive footage)

Cassady in the Backhouse
Himself

The Acid Test
Self
Filmography
- 2011Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool PlaceSelf
- 2011Love Always, CarolynSelf (archive footage)
- 1997The Last Time I Committed SuicideBook
- 1972Cassady in the BackhouseHimself
- 1966The Acid TestSelf
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