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Spalding Gray
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 monolog…
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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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2018
Real Life
Movie Earl Culver
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2014
Rumstick Road
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2010
And Everything Is Going Fine
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2002
Revolution #9
Movie Scooter McCrae
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2002
Confessions of a Sociopath
Movie Himself
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2001
Kate & Leopold
Movie Dr. Geisler
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2001
How High
Movie Prof. Jackson
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2001
Julie Johnson
Movie Mr. Tom Miranda
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1999
The Mike O'Malley Show
TV show
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1999
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Movie Self
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1999
Coming Soon
Movie Mr. Jennings
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1997
Bliss
Movie Alfred
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1997
Drunks
Movie Louis
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1996
Gray's Anatomy
Movie Spalding Gray
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1996
Diabolique
Movie Simon Veatch
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1995
Glory Daze
Movie Jack's Dad
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1995
Beyond Rangoon
Movie Jeremy Watt
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1995
Bad Company
Movie Walter Curl
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1994
The Paper
Movie Paul Bladden
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1993
Zelda
Movie Sayre
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1993
The Nanny
TV show Dr. Miller
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1993
Twenty Bucks
Movie Priest
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1993
King of the Hill
Movie Mr. Mungo
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1993
The Pickle
Movie Doctor
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1992
Monster in a Box
Movie Self
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1992
Straight Talk
Movie Dr. Erdman
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1991
To Save a Child
Movie
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1991
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
Movie The Talk Show Host
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1990
The Image
Movie Frank Goodrich
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1989
Heavy Petting
Movie Self
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1989
Our Town
Movie Stage Manager
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1988
Beaches
Movie Dr. Richard Milstein
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1988
Clara's Heart
Movie Peter Epstein
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1988
Stars & Bars
Movie Reverend T.J. Cardew
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1987
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
Movie Spalding Gray
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1987
Swimming to Cambodia
Movie Self
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1986
True Stories
Movie Earl Culver
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1986
What You Mean We?
Movie Talk show host
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1986
Seven Minutes in Heaven
Movie Dr. Rodney
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1985
Spenser: For Hire
TV show
