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