- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- June 5, 1941
- Place of Birth
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
- Died
- January 11, 2004
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 t…
Filmography
Real Life
movieReal Life
2018 · Earl Culver
movieRumstick Road
2014 · Self (archive footage)
movieAnd Everything Is Going Fine
2010 · Self (archive footage)
movieRevolution #9
2002 · Scooter McCrae
movieConfessions of a Sociopath
2002 · Himself
movieKate & Leopold
2001 · Dr. Geisler
movieHow High
2001 · Prof. Jackson
movieJulie Johnson
2001 · Mr. Tom Miranda
The Mike O'Malley Show
tvThe Mike O'Malley Show
1999
movieYesterday's Tomorrows
1999 · Self
movieComing Soon
1999 · Mr. Jennings
movieBliss
1997 · Alfred
movieDrunks
1997 · Louis
movieGray's Anatomy
1996 · Spalding Gray, Writer
movieDiabolique
1996 · Simon Veatch
movieGlory Daze
1995 · Jack's Dad
movieBeyond Rangoon
1995 · Jeremy Watt
movieBad Company
1995 · Walter Curl
movieThe Paper
1994 · Paul Bladden
movieZelda
1993 · Sayre
tvThe Nanny
1993 · Dr. Miller
movieTwenty Bucks
1993 · Priest
movieKing of the Hill
1993 · Mr. Mungo
movieThe Pickle
1993 · Doctor
movieMonster in a Box
1992 · Self, Writer
movieStraight Talk
1992 · Dr. Erdman
movieTo Save a Child
1991
movieLaurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
1991 · The Talk Show Host
movieThe Image
1990 · Frank Goodrich
movieHeavy Petting
1989 · Self
movieOur Town
1989 · Stage Manager
movieBeaches
1988 · Dr. Richard Milstein
movieClara's Heart
1988 · Peter Epstein
movieStars & Bars
1988 · Reverend T.J. Cardew
movieSpalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
1987 · Spalding Gray, Writer
movieSwimming to Cambodia
1987 · Self, Writer
movieTrue Stories
1986 · Earl Culver
What You Mean We?
movieWhat You Mean We?
1986 · Talk show host
movieSeven Minutes in Heaven
1986 · Dr. Rodney
tvSpenser: For Hire
1985
tvAlive from Off Center
1985 · self, Talk Show Host (voice), Writer
movieAlmost You
1985 · Travel Agent
movieVariety
1985 · Obscene Phone Caller (voice), Voice on answering machine (voice)
movieHard Choices
1985 · Terry Norfolk
movieSpalding Gray: A Life in Progress
1985 · Himself
movieThe Killing Fields
1984 · U.S. Consul
movieSpalding Gray's Map of L.A.
1984 · Spalding Gray, Writer
movieDouble Lunar Dogs
1984
movieSex and Death to the Age 14
1982 · Himself, Writer
movieA Personal History of the American Theater
1982 · Himself, Writer
movieAnybody's Woman
1981
movieMaraschino Cherry
1978 · Penny's Client with Beard (uncredited)
movieThe Farmer's Daughters
1976 · George
tvSaturday Night Live
1975 · Narrator of 'Brides' (voice) (uncredited)
moviePrisoner's Dilemma
1974 · Spalding Gray
tvGreat Performances
1971 · Stage Manager
movieLove-In '72
1970 · Radical at Party
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
movieThirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
— · Spalding Gray