Spalding Gray
Acting • Born 1941-06-05 – Died 2004-01-11
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.
Filmography
60 credits
The Killing Fields
Movie • 1984
U.S. Consul
Almost You
Movie • 1985
Travel Agent
Beyond Rangoon
Movie • 1995
Jeremy Watt
Diabolique
Movie • 1996
Simon Veatch
Kate & Leopold
Movie • 2001
Dr. Geisler
True Stories
Movie • 1986
Earl Culver
Gray's Anatomy
Movie • 1996
Spalding Gray
King of the Hill
Movie • 1993
Mr. Mungo
Glory Daze
Movie • 1995
Jack's Dad
Monster in a Box
Movie • 1992
Self
The Pickle
Movie • 1993
Doctor
Swimming to Cambodia
Movie • 1987
Spalding Gray
The Farmer's Daughters
Movie • 1976
George
Straight Talk
Movie • 1992
Dr. Erdman
Beaches
Movie • 1988
Dr. Richard Milstein
Confessions of a Sociopath
Movie • 2002
Himself
And Everything Is Going Fine
Movie • 2010
Self (archive footage)
Clara's Heart
Movie • 1988
Peter Epstein
The Image
Movie • 1990
Frank Goodrich
Variety
Movie • 1985
Obscene Phone Caller (voice)
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Movie • 1999
Self
Julie Johnson
Movie • 2001
Mr. Tom Miranda
Stars & Bars
Movie • 1988
Reverend T.J. Cardew
Drunks
Movie • 1997
Louis
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
Movie • 1987
Spalding Gray
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
Movie
Spalding Gray
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
Movie • 1984
Spalding Gray
Double Lunar Dogs
Movie • 1984
Zelda
Movie • 1993
Sayre
Hard Choices
Movie • 1985
Terry Norfolk
To Save a Child
Movie • 1991
Our Town
Movie • 1989
Stage Manager
Bliss
Movie • 1997
Alfred
Anybody's Woman
Movie • 1981
Love-In '72
Movie • 1970
Radical at Party
A Personal History of the American Theater
Movie • 1982
Himself
Sex and Death to the Age 14
Movie • 1982
Himself
Rumstick Road
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Seven Minutes in Heaven
Movie • 1986
Dr. Rodney
Maraschino Cherry
Movie • 1978
Penny's Client with Beard (uncredited)
The Paper
Movie • 1994
Paul Bladden
Twenty Bucks
Movie • 1993
Priest
Revolution #9
Movie • 2002
Scooter McCrae
Bad Company
Movie • 1995
Walter Curl
Heavy Petting
Movie • 1989
Self
How High
Movie • 2001
Prof. Jackson
What You Mean We?
Movie • 1986
Talk show host
Variety
Movie • 1985
Voice on answering machine (voice)
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
Movie • 1985
Himself
Coming Soon
Movie • 1999
Mr. Jennings
Prisoner's Dilemma
Movie • 1974
Spalding Gray
Real Life
Movie • 2018
Earl Culver
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
Movie • 1991
The Talk Show Host
The Mike O'Malley Show
TV • 1999
Spenser: For Hire
TV • 1985
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Narrator of 'Brides' (voice) (uncredited)
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Stage Manager
Alive from Off Center
TV • 1985
self
Alive from Off Center
TV • 1985
Talk Show Host (voice)
The Nanny
TV • 1993
Dr. Jack Miller