Spalding Gray
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA — Jun 05 1941• Died Jan 11 2004
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Biography
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." G…
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Spalding Gray's Credits
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Great Performances
Stage Manager
The Nanny
Dr. Jack Miller
Spenser: For Hire
How High
Prof. Jackson
The Mike O'Malley Show
Beaches
Dr. Richard Milstein
Alive from Off Center
self
Kate & Leopold
Dr. Geisler
The Killing Fields
U.S. Consul
Bliss
Alfred
The Paper
Paul Bladden
Glory Daze
Jack's Dad
King of the Hill
Mr. Mungo
Straight Talk
Dr. Erdman
Seven Minutes in Heaven
Dr. Rodney
Bad Company
Walter Curl
The Pickle
Doctor
Coming Soon
Mr. Jennings
Twenty Bucks
Priest
Stars & Bars
Reverend T.J. Cardew
The Image
Frank Goodrich
Julie Johnson
Mr. Tom Miranda
True Stories
Earl Culver
Diabolique
Simon Veatch
Variety
Obscene Phone Caller (voice)
Beyond Rangoon
Jeremy Watt
Drunks
Louis
Clara's Heart
Peter Epstein
Hard Choices
Terry Norfolk
Gray's Anatomy
Spalding Gray
Swimming to Cambodia
Self
Almost You
Travel Agent
Zelda
Sayre
Yesterday's Tomorrows
Self
Real Life
Earl Culver
Our Town
Stage Manager
And Everything Is Going Fine
Self (archive footage)
Revolution #9
Scooter McCrae
To Save a Child
Heavy Petting
Self
Rumstick Road
Self (archive footage)
Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos
The Talk Show Host
Double Lunar Dogs
Prisoner's Dilemma
Spalding Gray
Monster in a Box
Self
Anybody's Woman
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
Spalding Gray
Thirty Second Spots: TV Commercials for Artists (1982-83)
Spalding Gray
Confessions of a Sociopath
Himself
Love-In '72
Radical at Party
What You Mean We?
Talk show host
A Personal History of the American Theater
Himself
Sex and Death to the Age 14
Himself
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress
Himself
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.
Spalding Gray
The Farmer's Daughters
George
Maraschino Cherry
Penny's Client with Beard (uncredited)