Cast & creator
Spalding Gray
Best known for Saturday Night Live, Great Performances, The Nanny
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.
Also known as: Spalding Grey
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1970–2018 · acting roles
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Across film & television
Filmography (71)
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Saturday Night Live
Narrator of 'Brides' (voice) (uncredited)
1975
Great Performances
Stage Manager
1971
The Nanny
Dr. Miller
1993
Spenser: For Hire
1985
Kate & Leopold
Dr. Geisler
2001
How High
Prof. Jackson
2001
The Killing Fields
U.S. Consul
1984
Alive from Off Center
self
1985Alive from Off Center
Talk Show Host (voice)
1985Alive from Off Center
Writer
1985
The Paper
Paul Bladden
1994
Beaches
Dr. Richard Milstein
1988
King of the Hill
Mr. Mungo
1993
Diabolique
Simon Veatch
1996The Mike O'Malley Show
1999
Glory Daze
Jack's Dad
1995
Straight Talk
Dr. Erdman
1992
Twenty Bucks
Priest
1993
Seven Minutes in Heaven
Dr. Rodney
1986
Beyond Rangoon
Jeremy Watt
1995
Julie Johnson
Mr. Tom Miranda
2001
Bliss
Alfred
1997
Bad Company
Walter Curl
1995
Coming Soon
Mr. Jennings
1999
Stars & Bars
Reverend T.J. Cardew
1988
True Stories
Earl Culver
1986
Drunks
Louis
1997
The Pickle
Doctor
1993
Clara's Heart
Peter Epstein
1988
Gray's Anatomy
Spalding Gray
1996Gray's Anatomy
Writer
1996
And Everything Is Going Fine
Self (archive footage)
2010
The Image
Frank Goodrich
1990
Swimming to Cambodia
Self
1987Swimming to Cambodia
Writer
1987
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
The Talk Show Host
1991
To Save a Child
1991
Almost You
Travel Agent
1985
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Self
1999
Variety
Obscene Phone Caller (voice)
1985Variety
Voice on answering machine (voice)
1985
Zelda
Sayre
1993
Gray Areas
Self
1984Gray Areas
Writer
1984
Heavy Petting
Self
1989
Revolution #9
Scooter McCrae
2002
Monster in a Box
Self
1992Monster in a Box
Writer
1992
Rumstick Road
Self (archive footage)
2014Rumstick Road
Writer
2014
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
Spalding Gray
1987Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
Writer
1987What You Mean We?
Talk show host
1986
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
Spalding Gray
1984Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
Writer
1984
Our Town
Stage Manager
1989
Double Lunar Dogs
1984
Hard Choices
Terry Norfolk
1985
Anybody's Woman
1981Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
Spalding Gray
Confessions of a Sociopath
Himself
2002
Sex and Death to the Age 14
Himself
1982Sex and Death to the Age 14
Writer
1982
Love-In '72
Radical at Party
1970
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
Himself
1985Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
Writer
1985
Prisoner's Dilemma
Spalding Gray
1974Real Life
Earl Culver
2018
A Personal History of the American Theater
Himself
1982A Personal History of the American Theater
Writer
1982
Spalding Gray at Hallwalls
Self
1978