
Spalding Gray
Known for ActingBorn 1941-06-05Died 2004-01-11Providence, 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. 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.Read more
Movies & web series
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Confessions of a Sociopath
2002 · Movie
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Zelda
1993 · Movie
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Prisoner's Dilemma
1974 · Movie
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Love-In '72
1970 · Movie
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Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
1987 · Movie
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Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
1991 · Movie
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Our Town
1989 · Movie
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Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999 · Movie
The Mike O'Malley Show
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The Mike O'Malley Show
1999 · Series
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The Nanny
1993 · Series
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Alive from Off Center
1985 · Series
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The Killing Fields
1984 · Movie
What You Mean We?
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What You Mean We?
1986 · Movie
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Swimming to Cambodia
1987 · Movie
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Spenser: For Hire
1985 · Series
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King of the Hill
1993 · Movie
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Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
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Beaches
1988 · Movie
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True Stories
1986 · Movie
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The Paper
1994 · Movie
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And Everything Is Going Fine
2010 · Movie
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Beyond Rangoon
1995 · Movie
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Gray's Anatomy
1996 · Movie
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To Save a Child
1991 · Movie
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How High
2001 · Movie
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Kate & Leopold
2001 · Movie
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Monster in a Box
1992 · Movie
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Almost You
1985 · Movie
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Seven Minutes in Heaven
1986 · Movie
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Straight Talk
1992 · Movie
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Great Performances
1971 · Series
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Coming Soon
1999 · Movie
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Twenty Bucks
1993 · Movie
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Heavy Petting
1989 · Movie
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The Farmer's Daughters
1976 · Movie
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Julie Johnson
2001 · Movie
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Bliss
1997 · Movie
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Diabolique
1996 · Movie
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Clara's Heart
1988 · Movie
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Variety
1985 · Movie
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Glory Daze
1995 · Movie
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Revolution #9
2002 · Movie
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The Pickle
1993 · Movie
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Bad Company
1995 · Movie
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Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
1984 · Movie
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The Image
1990 · Movie
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Maraschino Cherry
1978 · Movie
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Stars & Bars
1988 · Movie