Spalding Gray
Acting
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.
Real Life
Earl Culver
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
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
What You Mean We?
Talk show host
Seven Minutes in Heaven
Dr. Rodney
Almost You
Travel Agent
Variety
Voice on answering machine (voice)
Variety
Obscene Phone Caller (voice)
Hard Choices
Terry Norfolk
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
Himself
The Killing Fields
U.S. Consul
Double Lunar Dogs
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
Spalding Gray
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
Prisoner's Dilemma
Spalding Gray
Love-In '72
Radical at Party