A 1969 film, directed and co-written by Arthur Penn, was based on the true story told in the song, but with the addition of a large number of fictional scenes. This film, also called Alice's Restaurant, featured Arlo and several other figures in the song portraying themselves. The part of _his_ father Woody Guthrie, who had died in 1967, was played by an actor, Joseph Boley; <sep>, Pronoun: his <sep>, A: Arlo <sep>, B: Woody Guthrie