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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…
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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.
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Spalding Gray's Filmography
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No Poster
Real Life
as Earl Culver
Rumstick Road
as Self (archive footage)
And Everything Is Going Fine
as Self (archive footage)
Revolution #9
as Scooter McCrae
Confessions of a Sociopath
as Himself
Kate & Leopold
as Dr. Geisler
How High
as Prof. Jackson
Julie Johnson
as Mr. Tom Miranda
Yesterday's Tomorrows
as Self
Coming Soon
as Mr. Jennings
Bliss
as Alfred
Drunks
as Louis
Gray's Anatomy
as Spalding Gray
Diabolique
as Simon Veatch
Glory Daze
as Jack's Dad
Beyond Rangoon
as Jeremy Watt
Bad Company
as Walter Curl
The Paper
as Paul Bladden
Zelda
as Sayre
Twenty Bucks
as Priest
King of the Hill
as Mr. Mungo
The Pickle
as Doctor
Monster in a Box
as Self
Straight Talk
as Dr. Erdman
To Save a Child
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
as The Talk Show Host
The Image
as Frank Goodrich
Heavy Petting
as Self
Our Town
as Stage Manager
Beaches
as Dr. Richard Milstein
Clara's Heart
as Peter Epstein
Stars & Bars
as Reverend T.J. Cardew
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
as Spalding Gray
Swimming to Cambodia
as Self
True Stories
as Earl Culver
No Poster
What You Mean We?
as Talk show host
Seven Minutes in Heaven
as Dr. Rodney
Almost You
as Travel Agent
Variety
as Obscene Phone Caller (voice)
Variety
as Voice on answering machine (voice)
Hard Choices
as Terry Norfolk
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
as Himself
The Killing Fields
as U.S. Consul
Gray Areas
as Self
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
as Spalding Gray
Double Lunar Dogs
Sex and Death to the Age 14
as Himself
A Personal History of the American Theater
as Himself
Anybody's Woman
Spalding Gray at Hallwalls
as Self
Maraschino Cherry
as Penny's Client with Beard (uncredited)
The Farmer's Daughters
as George
Prisoner's Dilemma
as Spalding Gray
Love-In '72
as Radical at Party
No Poster
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
as Spalding Gray