Cast
Spalding Gray
Acting
Cast
Spalding Gray
Known for
Acting
Born
1941-06-05
From
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Died
2004-01-11
Also known as Spalding Grey
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.
Kate & Leopold
as Dr. Geisler
How High
as Prof. Jackson
The Killing Fields
as U.S. Consul
Bad Company
as Walter Curl
Diabolique
as Simon Veatch
The Paper
as Paul Bladden
Twenty Bucks
as Priest
Bliss
as Alfred
Beaches
as Dr. Richard Milstein
Straight Talk
as Dr. Erdman
Stars & Bars
as Reverend T.J. Cardew
The Pickle
as Doctor
Variety
as Obscene Phone Caller (voice)
Variety
as Voice on answering machine (voice)
Coming Soon
as Mr. Jennings
Heavy Petting
as Self
True Stories
as Earl Culver
Clara's Heart
as Peter Epstein
Seven Minutes in Heaven
as Dr. Rodney
Glory Daze
as Jack's Dad
Yesterday's Tomorrows
as Self
Hard Choices
as Terry Norfolk
Beyond Rangoon
as Jeremy Watt
King of the Hill
as Mr. Mungo
Drunks
as Louis
The Image
as Frank Goodrich
Our Town
as Stage Manager
Swimming to Cambodia
as Self
Almost You
as Travel Agent
Gray's Anatomy
as Spalding Gray
Revolution #9
as Scooter McCrae
To Save a Child
Monster in a Box
as Self
Julie Johnson
as Mr. Tom Miranda
Real Life
as Earl Culver
Love-In '72
as Radical at Party
Zelda
as Sayre
And Everything Is Going Fine
as Self (archive footage)
Anybody's Woman
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
as Spalding Gray
Prisoner's Dilemma
as Spalding Gray
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
as The Talk Show Host
A Personal History of the American Theater
as Himself
What You Mean We?
as Talk show host
Rumstick Road
as Self (archive footage)
Confessions of a Sociopath
as Himself
Double Lunar Dogs
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
as Himself
Maraschino Cherry
as Penny's Client with Beard (uncredited)
Sex and Death to the Age 14
as Himself
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
as Spalding Gray
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
as Spalding Gray
The Farmer's Daughters
as George