Spalding Gray
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- June 5, 1941
- Died
- January 11, 2004 (aged 62)
- Birthplace
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Biography
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
Filmography
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
Movie · as Spalding Gray
Real Life
Movie · as Earl Culver
Rumstick Road
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
And Everything Is Going Fine
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Confessions of a Sociopath
Movie · as Himself
Revolution #9
Movie · as Scooter McCrae
Kate & Leopold
Movie · as Dr. Geisler
Julie Johnson
Movie · as Mr. Tom Miranda
How High
Movie · as Prof. Jackson
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Movie · as Self
Coming Soon
Movie · as Mr. Jennings
The Mike O'Malley Show
TV · 1 ep
Drunks
Movie · as Louis
Bliss
Movie · as Alfred
Diabolique
Movie · as Simon Veatch
Gray's Anatomy
Movie · as Spalding Gray
Beyond Rangoon
Movie · as Jeremy Watt
Glory Daze
Movie · as Jack's Dad
Bad Company
Movie · as Walter Curl
The Paper
Movie · as Paul Bladden
King of the Hill
Movie · as Mr. Mungo
The Pickle
Movie · as Doctor
Zelda
Movie · as Sayre
Twenty Bucks
Movie · as Priest
The Nanny
TV · as Dr. Miller · 9 eps
Monster in a Box
Movie · as Self
Straight Talk
Movie · as Dr. Erdman
To Save a Child
Movie
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
Movie · as The Talk Show Host
The Image
Movie · as Frank Goodrich
Our Town
Movie · as Stage Manager
Heavy Petting
Movie · as Self
Beaches
Movie · as Dr. Richard Milstein
Clara's Heart
Movie · as Peter Epstein
Stars & Bars
Movie · as Reverend T.J. Cardew
Swimming to Cambodia
Movie · as Self
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
Movie · as Spalding Gray
True Stories
Movie · as Earl Culver
Seven Minutes in Heaven
Movie · as Dr. Rodney
What You Mean We?
Movie · as Talk show host
Almost You
Movie · as Travel Agent
Variety
Movie · as Obscene Phone Caller (voice), Voice on answering machine (voice)
Hard Choices
Movie · as Terry Norfolk
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
Movie · as Himself
Spenser: For Hire
TV · 1 ep
Alive from Off Center
TV · as self, Talk Show Host (voice) · 1 ep
The Killing Fields
Movie · as U.S. Consul
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
Movie · as Spalding Gray
Double Lunar Dogs
Movie
Gray Areas
Movie · as Self
A Personal History of the American Theater
Movie · as Himself
Sex and Death to the Age 14
Movie · as Himself
Anybody's Woman
Movie
Maraschino Cherry
Movie · as Penny's Client with Beard (uncredited)
Spalding Gray at Hallwalls
Movie · as Self
The Farmer's Daughters
Movie · as George
Saturday Night Live
TV · as Narrator of 'Brides' (voice) (uncredited) · 1 ep
Prisoner's Dilemma
Movie · as Spalding Gray
Great Performances
TV · as Stage Manager · 1 ep
Love-In '72
Movie · as Radical at Party