1941-06-05 ( 83 years old ) in 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.
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Movies
Rumstick Road
2014-05-01
And Everything Is Going Fine
2010-06-04
Revolution #9
2002-11-15
Confessions of a Sociopath
2002-01-01
Kate & Leopold
2001-12-25
How High
2001-12-21
Julie Johnson
2001-01-26
Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999-08-09
Coming Soon
1999-06-08
Bliss
1997-04-14
Drunks
1997-03-14
Gray's Anatomy
1996-09-11
Diabolique
1996-03-22
Glory Daze
1995-10-01
Beyond Rangoon
1995-08-25
Bad Company
1995-01-20
The Paper
1994-03-18
Zelda
1993-11-06
Twenty Bucks
1993-10-21
King of the Hill
1993-08-20
The Pickle
1993-04-30
Monster in a Box
1992-05-15
Straight Talk
1992-04-03
To Save a Child
1991-09-08
The Image
1990-01-27
Heavy Petting
1989-09-22
Our Town
1989-04-01
Beaches
1988-12-21
Clara's Heart
1988-10-07
Stars & Bars
1988-03-18
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
1987-11-28
Swimming to Cambodia
1987-03-13
Real Life
1986-12-31
True Stories
1986-10-10
What You Mean We?
1986-09-26
Seven Minutes in Heaven
1986-05-09
Almost You
1985-03-29
Variety
1985-02-27
Variety
1985-02-27
Hard Choices
1985-01-24
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
1985-01-01
The Killing Fields
1984-11-23
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
1984-01-01
Double Lunar Dogs
1984-01-01
Sex and Death to the Age 14
1982-01-01
A Personal History of the American Theater
1982-01-01
Anybody's Woman
1981-01-01
Maraschino Cherry
1978-10-20
The Farmer's Daughters
1976-06-11
Prisoner's Dilemma
1974-12-31
Love-In '72
1970-03-21
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