Spalding Gray
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
Saturday Night Live
The Nanny
Great Performances
Spenser: For Hire
How High
Kate & Leopold
The Killing Fields
Bliss
All Movies (53)
- Real Life2018 · as Earl Culver
- Rumstick Road2014 · as Self (archive footage)
- And Everything Is Going Fine2010 · as Self (archive footage)
- Revolution #92002 · as Scooter McCrae
- Confessions of a Sociopath2002 · as Himself
- Kate & Leopold2001 · as Dr. Geisler
- How High2001 · as Prof. Jackson
- Julie Johnson2001 · as Mr. Tom Miranda
- Yesterday's Tomorrows1999 · as Self
- Coming Soon1999 · as Mr. Jennings
- Bliss1997 · as Alfred
- Drunks1997 · as Louis
- Gray's Anatomy1996 · as Spalding Gray
- Diabolique1996 · as Simon Veatch
- Glory Daze1995 · as Jack's Dad
- Beyond Rangoon1995 · as Jeremy Watt
- Bad Company1995 · as Walter Curl
- The Paper1994 · as Paul Bladden
- Zelda1993 · as Sayre
- Twenty Bucks1993 · as Priest
- King of the Hill1993 · as Mr. Mungo
- The Pickle1993 · as Doctor
- Monster in a Box1992 · as Self
- Straight Talk1992 · as Dr. Erdman
- To Save a Child1991
- Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos1991 · as The Talk Show Host
- The Image1990 · as Frank Goodrich
- Heavy Petting1989 · as Self
- Our Town1989 · as Stage Manager
- Beaches1988 · as Dr. Richard Milstein
- Clara's Heart1988 · as Peter Epstein
- Stars & Bars1988 · as Reverend T.J. Cardew
- Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure1987 · as Spalding Gray
- Swimming to Cambodia1987 · as Self
- True Stories1986 · as Earl Culver
- What You Mean We?1986 · as Talk show host
- Seven Minutes in Heaven1986 · as Dr. Rodney
- Almost You1985 · as Travel Agent
- Variety1985 · as Obscene Phone Caller (voice)
- Variety1985 · as Voice on answering machine (voice)
- Hard Choices1985 · as Terry Norfolk
- Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress1985 · as Himself
- The Killing Fields1984 · as U.S. Consul
- Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.1984 · as Spalding Gray
- Double Lunar Dogs1984
- Sex and Death to the Age 141982 · as Himself
- A Personal History of the American Theater1982 · as Himself
- Anybody's Woman1981
- Maraschino Cherry1978 · as Penny's Client with Beard (uncredited)
- The Farmer's Daughters1976 · as George
- Prisoner's Dilemma1974 · as Spalding Gray
- Love-In '721970 · as Radical at Party
- Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)— · as Spalding Gray
All TV Shows (7)
- The Mike O'Malley Show1999
- The Nanny1993 · as Dr. Miller
- Spenser: For Hire1985
- Alive from Off Center1985 · as self
- Alive from Off Center1985 · as Talk Show Host (voice)
- Saturday Night Live1975 · as Narrator of 'Brides' (voice) (uncredited)
- Great Performances1971 · as Stage Manager