
Spalding Gray
Born June 5, 1941 · 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. 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.
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The Paper

How High

Kate & Leopold

Beaches

Twenty Bucks

Straight Talk

Diabolique

King of the Hill

Glory Daze

Coming Soon

Beyond Rangoon

True Stories

Bad Company

Seven Minutes in Heaven

Bliss

Stars & Bars

The Pickle

Clara's Heart

Variety

Swimming to Cambodia

Gray's Anatomy

Drunks

Heavy Petting

Yesterday's Tomorrows

And Everything Is Going Fine

Zelda

To Save a Child

Revolution #9

Julie Johnson

Almost You

The Image

Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos

Rumstick Road

Monster in a Box

Double Lunar Dogs

Love-In '72

Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.

Our Town

Confessions of a Sociopath

Gray Areas

Hard Choices

Prisoner's Dilemma

Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure

Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress

Anybody's Woman

Sex and Death to the Age 14

A Personal History of the American Theater

Spalding Gray at Hallwalls

The Farmer's Daughters






