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.
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Fotos
Películas (52)
Real Life
2018 · Earl Culver
Rumstick Road
2014 · Self (archive footage), Writer
And Everything Is Going Fine
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Revolution #9
2002 · Scooter McCrae
Confessions of a Sociopath
2002 · Himself
Kate & Leopold
2001 · Dr. Geisler
How High
2001 · Prof. Jackson
Julie Johnson
2001 · Mr. Tom Miranda
Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999 · Self
Coming Soon
1999 · Mr. Jennings
Bliss
1997 · Alfred
Drunks
1997 · Louis
Gray's Anatomy
1996 · Spalding Gray, Writer
Diabolique
1996 · Simon Veatch
Glory Daze
1995 · Jack's Dad
Beyond Rangoon
1995 · Jeremy Watt
Bad Company
1995 · Walter Curl
The Paper
1994 · Paul Bladden
Zelda
1993 · Sayre
Twenty Bucks
1993 · Priest
King of the Hill
1993 · Mr. Mungo
The Pickle
1993 · Doctor
Monster in a Box
1992 · Self, Writer
Straight Talk
1992 · Dr. Erdman
To Save a Child
1991
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
1991 · The Talk Show Host
The Image
1990 · Frank Goodrich
Heavy Petting
1989 · Self
Our Town
1989 · Stage Manager
Beaches
1988 · Dr. Richard Milstein
Clara's Heart
1988 · Peter Epstein
Stars & Bars
1988 · Reverend T.J. Cardew
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
1987 · Spalding Gray, Writer
Swimming to Cambodia
1987 · Self, Writer
True Stories
1986 · Earl Culver
What You Mean We?
1986 · Talk show host
Seven Minutes in Heaven
1986 · Dr. Rodney
Almost You
1985 · Travel Agent
Variety
1985 · Obscene Phone Caller (voice), Voice on answering machine (voice)
Hard Choices
1985 · Terry Norfolk
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
1985 · Himself, Writer
The Killing Fields
1984 · U.S. Consul
Gray Areas
1984 · Self, Writer
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
1984 · Spalding Gray, Writer
Double Lunar Dogs
1984
Sex and Death to the Age 14
1982 · Himself, Writer
A Personal History of the American Theater
1982 · Himself, Writer
Anybody's Woman
1981
Spalding Gray at Hallwalls
1978 · Self
Prisoner's Dilemma
1974 · Spalding Gray
Love-In '72
1970 · Radical at Party
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
· Spalding Gray
