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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1941-06-05
- event Death Date 2004-01-11
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 2.3
- info Birth Place Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Spalding Gray
7.5
The Killing Fields
1984-11-23
5.3
Almost You
1985-03-29
6.6
Beyond Rangoon
1995-05-24
5.6
Diabolique
1996-03-22
6.3
Kate & Leopold
2001-12-25
6.6
True Stories
1986-10-10
6.5
Gray's Anatomy
1996-09-11
6.8
King of the Hill
1993-08-20
5.1
Glory Daze
1995-10-01
6.2
Monster in a Box
1992-05-15
4.8
The Pickle
1993-04-30
6.6
Swimming to Cambodia
1987-03-13
5.1
The Farmer's Daughters
1976-06-11
6
Straight Talk
1992-04-03
6.6
Beaches
1988-12-21
0
Confessions of a Sociopath
2002-01-01
6.5
And Everything Is Going Fine
2010-06-04
5.5
Clara's Heart
1988-10-07
4.2
The Image
1990-01-27
5.1
Variety
1985-02-27
0
Yesterday's Tomorrows
1999-08-09
5.8
Julie Johnson
2001-01-26
4.5
Stars & Bars
1988-03-18
3.3
Drunks
1997-03-14
0
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
1987-11-28
0
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
5
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
1984-01-01
0
Double Lunar Dogs
1984-01-01
0
Zelda
1993-11-06
3.5
Hard Choices
1985-01-24
3
To Save a Child
1991-09-08
0
Our Town
1989-04-01
5.5
Bliss
1997-04-14
0
Anybody's Woman
1981-01-01
10
Love-In '72
1970-03-21
0
Sex and Death to the Age 14
1982-01-01
0
A Personal History of the American Theater
1982-01-01
0
Rumstick Road
2014-05-01
6.1
Seven Minutes in Heaven
1986-05-09
4.4
Maraschino Cherry
1978-10-20
6.6
The Paper
1994-03-18
5.8
Twenty Bucks
1993-10-21
5
Revolution #9
2002-11-15
4.9
Bad Company
1995-01-20
5.6
Heavy Petting
1989-09-22
6.4
How High
2001-12-21
6
What You Mean We?
1986-09-26
5.1
Variety
1985-02-27
0
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
1985-01-01
5.8
Coming Soon
1999-06-08
10
Prisoner's Dilemma
1974-12-31
8.3
The Mike O'Malley Show
1999-09-21
6.6
Spenser: For Hire
1985-09-20
7
Saturday Night Live
1975-10-11
4.9
Great Performances
1971-01-28