Brion Gysin

Actor

Date of birth : 01/19/1916

Date of death : 07/13/1986

City of birth : Taplow, England, UK

Born to Canadian parents during the First World War - his father died at the Battle of the Somme. In 1921 settled in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada with his mother. Became an artist in the late 1930s and a writer in the 1940s. Became well know for a surreal style of art, and with William S. Burroughs devises the style of writing known as "cut-ups." Considered a hero of the Beat Generation and the avant garde music scene.