Spalding Gray
Born June 05, 1941 (Age: 84)
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Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Biography
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.
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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Filmography
Revolution #9
2002
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as Scooter McCrae
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Age: 61
Confessions of a Sociopath
2002
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as Himself
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Age: 60
Kate & Leopold
2001
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as Dr. Geisler
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Age: 60
How High
2001
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as Prof. Jackson
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Age: 60
Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999
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as Self
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Age: 58
Bliss
1997
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as Alfred
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Age: 55
Drunks
1997
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as Louis
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Age: 55
Gray's Anatomy
1996
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as Spalding Gray
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Age: 55
Diabolique
1996
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as Simon Veatch
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Age: 54
Beyond Rangoon
1995
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as Jeremy Watt
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Age: 54
The Paper
1994
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as Paul Bladden
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Age: 52
Zelda
1993
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as Sayre
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Age: 52
Twenty Bucks
1993
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as Priest
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Age: 52
King of the Hill
1993
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as Mr. Mungo
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Age: 52
The Pickle
1993
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as Doctor
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Age: 51
Monster in a Box
1992
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as Self
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Age: 50
Straight Talk
1992
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as Dr. Erdman
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Age: 50
To Save a Child
1991
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as
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Age: 50
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
1991
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as The Talk Show Host
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Age: 50
The Image
1990
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as Frank Goodrich
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Age: 48
Heavy Petting
1989
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as Self
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Age: 48
Our Town
1989
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as Stage Manager
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Age: 47
Beaches
1988
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as Dr. Richard Milstein
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Age: 47
Clara's Heart
1988
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as Peter Epstein
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Age: 47
Stars & Bars
1988
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as Reverend T.J. Cardew
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Age: 46
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
1987
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as Spalding Gray
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Age: 46
Swimming to Cambodia
1987
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as Self
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Age: 45
Seven Minutes in Heaven
1986
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as Dr. Rodney
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Age: 44
Almost You
1985
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as Travel Agent
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Age: 43
Variety
1985
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as Voice on answering machine (voice)
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Age: 43
Hard Choices
1985
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as Terry Norfolk
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Age: 43
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
1985
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as Himself
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Age: 43
The Killing Fields
1984
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as U.S. Consul
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Age: 43
Anybody's Woman
1981
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as
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Age: 39
Prisoner's Dilemma
1974
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as Spalding Gray
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Age: 33