Trivia

In 1967 he published his own eulogy in "The Village Voice" because he was upset that the negative of his latest film, Lucifer Rising (1972), which he was carrying on the back of his motorcycle, had been stolen and destroyed by members of the Hell's Angels.

He was an active esoterist (which some of his films reflect) and a sympathizer of Aleister Crowley's "Thelema" philosophy. He is also a member of a secret society, the Ordo Templi Orientalis.

According to some sources (including Jean-Luc Godard in "Cahiers du Cinéma"), Anger edited a version of Sergei Eisenstein's unfinished ¡Que viva Mexico! (1932) during his time in France in the early 1950s. There are no known extant copies of the project and it is not certain it ever actually existed.

Concocted his stage name at age five.

Attended Beverly Hills High School, Beverly Hills, CA.

For 12 years he was the personal assistant of Henri Langlois.

Is the subject of the songs "A Film By Kenneth Anger" by The Auteurs and "Kenneth Anger's Bad Dream" by Comet Gain.

Once called Hollywood censor Will H. Hays "a prim-faced, bat-eared, mealy-mouthed political chiseler.".

His name is tattooed on the arm of a character in John Waters's "Cecil B. DeMented".