Spalding Gray
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.
The Killing Fields
(U.S. Consul)
Almost You
(Travel Agent)
Beyond Rangoon
(Jeremy Watt)
Diabolique
(Simon Veatch)
Kate & Leopold
(Dr. Geisler)
True Stories
(Earl Culver)
Gray's Anatomy
(Self)
King of the Hill
(Mr. Mungo)
Glory Daze
(Jack's Dad)
Monster in a Box
(Self)
The Pickle
(Doctor)
Swimming to Cambodia
(Self)
The Farmer's Daughters
(George)
Straight Talk
(Dr. Erdman)
Beaches
(Dr. Richard Milstein)
Confessions of a Sociopath
(Himself)
And Everything Is Going Fine
(Self (archive footage))
Clara's Heart
(Peter Epstein)
The Image
(Frank Goodrich)
Variety
(Obscene Phone Caller (voice))
Yesterday's Tomorrows
(Self)
Julie Johnson
(Mr. Tom Miranda)
Stars & Bars
(Reverend T.J. Cardew)
Drunks
(Louis)
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
(Self)
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
(Spalding Gray)
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
(Self)
Double Lunar Dogs
Zelda
(Sayre)
Hard Choices
(Terry Norfolk)
To Save a Child
Our Town
(Stage Manager)
Bliss
(Alfred)
Anybody's Woman
Love-In '72
(Radical at Party)
A Personal History of the American Theater
(Himself)
Sex and Death to the Age 14
(Himself)
Rumstick Road
(Self (archive footage))
Seven Minutes in Heaven
(Dr. Rodney)
Maraschino Cherry
(Penny's Client with Beard (uncredited))
The Paper
(Paul Bladden)
Twenty Bucks
(Priest)
Revolution #9
(Scooter McCrae)
Bad Company
(Walter Curl)
Heavy Petting
(Self)
How High
(Prof. Jackson)
What You Mean We?
(Talk show host)
Variety
(Voice on answering machine (voice))
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
(Himself)
Coming Soon
(Mr. Jennings)
Prisoner's Dilemma
(Spalding Gray)
The Mike O'Malley Show
Spenser: For Hire
Saturday Night Live
(Narrator of 'Brides' (voice) (uncredited))
Great Performances
(Stage Manager)