Spalding Gray
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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
How High (2001)
as Prof. Jackson
Kate & Leopold (2001)
as Dr. Geisler
Diabolique (1996)
as Simon Veatch
The Paper (1994)
as Paul Bladden
The Killing Fields (1984)
as U.S. Consul
Straight Talk (1992)
as Dr. Erdman
Beaches (1988)
as Dr. Richard Milstein
Bad Company (1995)
as Walter Curl
Seven Minutes in Heaven (1986)
as Dr. Rodney
Twenty Bucks (1993)
as Priest
Glory Daze (1995)
as Jack's Dad
Bliss (1997)
as Alfred
King of the Hill (1993)
as Mr. Mungo
Coming Soon (1999)
as Mr. Jennings
Stars & Bars (1988)
as Reverend T.J. Cardew
True Stories (1986)
as Earl Culver
Love-In '72 (1970)
as Radical at Party
The Pickle (1993)
as Doctor
Beyond Rangoon (1995)
as Jeremy Watt
Almost You (1985)
as Travel Agent
Yesterday's Tomorrows (1999)
as Self
Clara's Heart (1988)
as Peter Epstein
Drunks (1997)
as Louis
The Image (1990)
as Frank Goodrich
Gray's Anatomy (1996)
as Spalding Gray
Our Town (1989)
as Stage Manager
Variety (1985)
as Obscene Phone Caller (voice)
Swimming to Cambodia (1987)
as Self
Heavy Petting (1989)
as Self
Julie Johnson (2001)
as Mr. Tom Miranda
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos (1991)
as The Talk Show Host
Zelda (1993)
as Sayre
Revolution #9 (2002)
as Scooter McCrae
To Save a Child (1991)
Actor
And Everything Is Going Fine (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
Real Life (2018)
as Earl Culver
Hard Choices (1985)
as Terry Norfolk
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure (1987)
as Spalding Gray
Double Lunar Dogs (1984)
Actor
Anybody's Woman (1981)
Actor
Confessions of a Sociopath (2002)
as Himself
Monster in a Box (1992)
as Self
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A. (1984)
as Spalding Gray
Rumstick Road (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Prisoner's Dilemma (1974)
as Spalding Gray
A Personal History of the American Theater (1982)
as Himself
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress (1985)
as Himself
What You Mean We? (1986)
as Talk show host
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83) (—)
as Spalding Gray
Sex and Death to the Age 14 (1982)
as Himself
Gray Areas (1984)
as Self
Spalding Gray at Hallwalls (1978)
as Self
The Farmer's Daughters (1976)
as George
Maraschino Cherry (1978)
as Penny's Client with Beard (uncredited)