Acting
Spalding Gray
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
Real Life
Film · 2018
Rumstick Road
Film · 2014
And Everything Is Going Fine
Film · 2010
Confessions of a Sociopath
Film · 2002
Revolution #9
Film · 2002
Kate & Leopold
Film · 2001
Julie Johnson
Film · 2001
How High
Film · 2001
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Film · 1999
Coming Soon
Film · 1999
The Mike O'Malley Show
Series · 1999
Drunks
Film · 1997
Bliss
Film · 1997
Diabolique
Film · 1996
Gray's Anatomy
Film · 1996
Beyond Rangoon
Film · 1995
Glory Daze
Film · 1995
Bad Company
Film · 1995
The Paper
Film · 1994
King of the Hill
Film · 1993
The Pickle
Film · 1993
Zelda
Film · 1993
Twenty Bucks
Film · 1993
The Nanny
Series · 1993
Monster in a Box
Film · 1992
Straight Talk
Film · 1992
To Save a Child
Film · 1991
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
Film · 1991
The Image
Film · 1990
Our Town
Film · 1989
Heavy Petting
Film · 1989
Beaches
Film · 1988
Clara's Heart
Film · 1988
Stars & Bars
Film · 1988
Swimming to Cambodia
Film · 1987
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
Film · 1987
True Stories
Film · 1986
Seven Minutes in Heaven
Film · 1986
What You Mean We?
Film · 1986
Almost You
Film · 1985
Variety
Film · 1985
Hard Choices
Film · 1985
Variety
Film · 1985
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
Film · 1985
Spenser: For Hire
Series · 1985
Alive from Off Center
Series · 1985
Alive from Off Center
Series · 1985
The Killing Fields
Film · 1984
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
Film · 1984
Double Lunar Dogs
Film · 1984
Gray Areas
Film · 1984
Sex and Death to the Age 14
Film · 1982
A Personal History of the American Theater
Film · 1982
Anybody's Woman
Film · 1981
Maraschino Cherry
Film · 1978
Spalding Gray at Hallwalls
Film · 1978
The Farmer's Daughters
Film · 1976
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Prisoner's Dilemma
Film · 1974
Great Performances
Series · 1971
Love-In '72
Film · 1970
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
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