Spalding Gray
Spalding Gray (June 5, 1941 – January 11, 2004) was an American actor, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and performance artist. He is best known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his film adaptations of these works, beginning in 1987. He wrote and starred in several, working with different directors. Theater critics John Willis and Ben Hodges called Gray's monologues "trenchant, personal narratives delivered on sparse, unadorned sets with a dry, WASP, quiet mania." Gray achieved renown for his monologue Swimming to Cambodia, which he adapted as a 1987 film in which he starred; it was directed by Jonathan Demme. Other of his monologues that he adapted for film were Monster in a Box (1991), directed by Nick Broomfield, and Gray's Anatomy (1996), directed by Steven Soderbergh. Gray died by suicide at the age of 62 after jumping into New York Harbor on January 11, 2004. He had been struggling with depression and severe injuries following a car accident. Soderbergh made a documentary film about Gray's life, And Everything Is Going Fine (2010). An unfinished monologue and a selection from his journals were published in 2005 and 2011, respectively. Description above from the Wikipedia article Spalding Gray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Credits
- 2014 · Rumstick Road as Self (archive footage)
- 2010 · And Everything Is Going Fine as Self (archive footage)
- 2002 · Revolution #9 as Scooter McCrae
- 2002 · Confessions of a Sociopath as Himself
- 2001 · Kate & Leopold as Dr. Geisler
- 2001 · How High as Prof. Jackson
- 2001 · Julie Johnson as Mr. Tom Miranda
- 1999 · The Mike O'Malley Show as
- 1999 · Yesterday's Tomorrows as Self
- 1999 · Coming Soon as Mr. Jennings
- 1997 · Bliss as Alfred
- 1997 · Drunks as Louis
- 1996 · Gray's Anatomy as Self
- 1996 · Diabolique as Simon Veatch
- 1995 · Glory Daze as Jack's Dad
- 1995 · Beyond Rangoon as Jeremy Watt
- 1995 · Bad Company as Walter Curl
- 1994 · The Paper as Paul Bladden
- 1993 · Zelda as Sayre
- 1993 · Twenty Bucks as Priest
- 1993 · King of the Hill as Mr. Mungo
- 1993 · The Pickle as Doctor
- 1992 · Monster in a Box as Self
- 1992 · Straight Talk as Dr. Erdman
- 1991 · To Save a Child as
- 1990 · The Image as Frank Goodrich
- 1989 · Heavy Petting as Self
- 1989 · Our Town as Stage Manager
- 1988 · Beaches as Dr. Richard Milstein
- 1988 · Clara's Heart as Peter Epstein
- 1988 · Stars & Bars as Reverend T.J. Cardew
- 1987 · Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure as Self
- 1987 · Swimming to Cambodia as Self
- 1986 · True Stories as Earl Culver
- 1986 · What You Mean We? as Talk show host
- 1986 · Seven Minutes in Heaven as Dr. Rodney
- 1985 · Spenser: For Hire as
- 1985 · Almost You as Travel Agent
- 1985 · Variety as Obscene Phone Caller (voice)
- 1985 · Variety as Voice on answering machine (voice)
- 1985 · Hard Choices as Terry Norfolk
- 1985 · Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress as Himself
- 1984 · The Killing Fields as U.S. Consul
- 1984 · Spalding Gray's Map of L.A. as Self
- 1984 · Double Lunar Dogs as
- 1982 · A Personal History of the American Theater as Himself
- 1982 · Sex and Death to the Age 14 as Himself
- 1981 · Anybody's Woman as
- 1978 · Maraschino Cherry as Penny's Client with Beard (uncredited)
- 1976 · The Farmer's Daughters as George
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Narrator of 'Brides' (voice) (uncredited)
- 1974 · Prisoner's Dilemma as Spalding Gray
- 1971 · Great Performances as Stage Manager
- 1970 · Love-In '72 as Radical at Party
- Future · Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83) as Spalding Gray