Oliver Sacks

Biography

Career Overview

Oliver Sacks has 15 screen credits in a career dating back to 1987. Signature works include The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, Alive Inside. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

male

Known Credits

15

Known For

• The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks
• 

  Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
• 

  Alive Inside
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
• Geniet och pojkarna
• 

  Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain

Frequent Collaborators

• Atul Gawande (1 collaborations)
• Temple Grandin (1 collaborations)
• Christof Koch (1 collaborations)
• Roberto Calasso (1 collaborations)
• Kate Edgar (1 collaborations)
• Shane Fistell (1 collaborations)
• Lowell Handler (1 collaborations)
• Bill Hayes (1 collaborations)
• Mark Homonoff (1 collaborations)
• Anna Horovitz (1 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (11 credits)

  • The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2021
  • Alive Inside

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • When Björk Met Attenborough

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2013
  • The Genius and the Boys

    Himself - Professor of Neurology and Author

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Geniet och pojkarna

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Janela da Alma

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • The Daily Show

    - Dr. Oliver Sacks (2009) ... Self actor actors
    1996
  • John's Not Mad

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1989
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    1987

• writing (4 credits)

  • Brilliant Minds

    - The Man Who Can't See Faces (2025) ... other writing

    - The Doctor Whose World Collapsed (2025) ... other writing

    - The Other Woman (2024) ... other writing

    - The First Responder (2024) ... other writing

    - The Colorblind Painter (2024) ... other writing
    2024
  • At First Sight

    story

    writing
    1999
  • Awakenings

    book

    writing
    1990
  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

    novel

    writing
    1987