Spalding Gray
Acting
1941-06-05 · Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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.
Filmography
Real Life
2018 · Movie
Rumstick Road
2014 · Movie
And Everything Is Going Fine
2010 · Movie
Revolution #9
2002 · Movie
Confessions of a Sociopath
2002 · Movie
Kate & Leopold
2001 · Movie
How High
2001 · Movie
Julie Johnson
2001 · Movie
The Mike O'Malley Show
1999 · Series
Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999 · Movie
Coming Soon
1999 · Movie
Bliss
1997 · Movie
Drunks
1997 · Movie
Gray's Anatomy
1996 · Movie
Diabolique
1996 · Movie
Glory Daze
1995 · Movie
Beyond Rangoon
1995 · Movie
Bad Company
1995 · Movie
The Paper
1994 · Movie
Zelda
1993 · Movie
The Nanny
1993 · Series
Twenty Bucks
1993 · Movie
King of the Hill
1993 · Movie
The Pickle
1993 · Movie
Monster in a Box
1992 · Movie
Straight Talk
1992 · Movie
To Save a Child
1991 · Movie
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
1991 · Movie
The Image
1990 · Movie
Heavy Petting
1989 · Movie
Our Town
1989 · Movie
Beaches
1988 · Movie
Clara's Heart
1988 · Movie
Stars & Bars
1988 · Movie
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
1987 · Movie
Swimming to Cambodia
1987 · Movie
True Stories
1986 · Movie
What You Mean We?
1986 · Movie
Seven Minutes in Heaven
1986 · Movie
Spenser: For Hire
1985 · Series
Alive from Off Center
1985 · Series
Almost You
1985 · Movie
Variety
1985 · Movie
Hard Choices
1985 · Movie
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
1985 · Movie
The Killing Fields
1984 · Movie
Gray Areas
1984 · Movie
Double Lunar Dogs
1984 · Movie
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
1984 · Movie
A Personal History of the American Theater
1982 · Movie
Sex and Death to the Age 14
1982 · Movie
Anybody's Woman
1981 · Movie
Spalding Gray at Hallwalls
1978 · Movie
Maraschino Cherry
1978 · Movie
The Farmer's Daughters
1976 · Movie
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
Prisoner's Dilemma
1974 · Movie
Great Performances
1971 · Series
Love-In '72
1970 · Movie
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
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