Spalding Gray
Actor
Born June 5, 1941 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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.
Filmography
Rumstick Road
Self (archive footage)
And Everything Is Going Fine
Self (archive footage)
Revolution #9
Scooter McCrae
Confessions of a Sociopath
Himself
Kate & Leopold
Dr. Geisler
How High
Prof. Jackson
Julie Johnson
Mr. Tom Miranda
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Self
Coming Soon
Mr. Jennings
Bliss
Alfred
Drunks
Louis
Gray's Anatomy
Spalding Gray
Diabolique
Simon Veatch
Glory Daze
Jack's Dad
Beyond Rangoon
Jeremy Watt
Bad Company
Walter Curl
The Paper
Paul Bladden
Zelda
Sayre
The Nanny
Dr. Miller
Twenty Bucks
Priest
King of the Hill
Mr. Mungo
The Pickle
Doctor
Monster in a Box
Self
Straight Talk
Dr. Erdman
To Save a Child
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
The Talk Show Host
The Image
Frank Goodrich
Heavy Petting
Self
Our Town
Stage Manager
Beaches
Dr. Richard Milstein
Clara's Heart
Peter Epstein
Stars & Bars
Reverend T.J. Cardew
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
Spalding Gray
Swimming to Cambodia
Self
True Stories
Earl Culver
Seven Minutes in Heaven
Dr. Rodney
Spenser: For Hire
Alive from Off Center
self
Almost You
Travel Agent
Variety
Obscene Phone Caller (voice)
Hard Choices
Terry Norfolk
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
Himself
The Killing Fields
U.S. Consul
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
Spalding Gray
Double Lunar Dogs
A Personal History of the American Theater
Himself
Sex and Death to the Age 14
Himself
Anybody's Woman
Maraschino Cherry
Penny's Client with Beard (uncredited)
The Farmer's Daughters
George
Saturday Night Live
Narrator of 'Brides' (voice) (uncredited)
Prisoner's Dilemma
Spalding Gray
Great Performances
Stage Manager
Love-In '72
Radical at Party