Spalding Gray

Biography

Monologuist, professional, and novelist Spalding Grey was created June 5, 1941 in Barrington, Rhode Isle; after co-founding the experimental theatrical firm the Wooster Group in 1977, he finished his first main monologue, Sex and Loss of life to this 14, executing the piece through the entire U.S. and European countries. His function off-Broadway and in movies helped him property a small function in Roland Joffé’s 1984 feature The Getting rid of Fields, an event that became the foundation of Gray’s discovery piece Going swimming to Cambodia; originally working four hours long, the monologue was edited to 80 a few minutes when in 1987 it reached theaters being a film directed by Jonathan Demme. Monster within a Container (1991), aimed by Nick Broomfield, worried Gray’s attempts to finish his epic book Impossible Vacation, released the following calendar year; another feature film, the Steven Soderbergh-helmed Gray’s Anatomy, implemented in 1996. The compact disk model of his monologue From the Slippery Slope made an appearance two years afterwards. Gray sustained serious injuries within a head-on car collision while on holiday in Ireland during 2001, as well as the collision and its own aftermath exacerbated the unhappiness he had experienced for a long time. In January 2004, Grey was declared lacking in NY, and 8 weeks afterwards, on March 7, 2004, his body was taken in the East River. It had been presumed that he previously dedicated suicide by jumping from the Staten Isle ferry.

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#	Fact
1	Reported missing after after disappearing from his Manhattan home. [January 2004]
2	After being reported missing on January 10th, the police pulled his body from the East River at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 07, 2004. The body was found off the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, near Kent Avenue. [March 2004]
3	(November 1999 - January 2000) New monologue at Lincoln Center, "Morning, Noon and Night"
4	Biography in "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives," Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 215-218. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
5	Biography/bibliography in "Contemporary Authors," New Revision Series, vol. 138, pages 184-190. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
6	His depression worsened when his family moved from the house he loved in Sag Harbor to one he hated in New Haven.
7	Had two sons with Kathleen Russo: Forrest and Theo.
8	Said that only his children could make him laugh
9	Was claustrophobic.
10	His mother committed suicide in 1967; Gray sometimes referred in his monologues to a desire to do the same.
11	Suffered severe injuries in a 2001 automobile accident in Ireland. At the time of his disappearance in January 2004, it was reported that Gray had been working on a new monologue based upon his experience and recovery after the accident. According to some published reports, Gray suffered from depression which intensified after the accident.
12	Was reported missing on Sunday, January 10, 2004. His body was found in the East River (New York City) on March 7, 2004.
13	The directors of the filmed versions of Gray's monologues Swimming to Cambodia (1987), Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure (1988), Monster in a Box (1992) and Gray's Anatomy (1996) , are all considered to be of the first rank: respectively Jonathan Demme, Thomas Schlamme (multi Emmy-winning producer and director of The West Wing (1999)), Nick Broomfield (renowned British documentary maker) and Steven Soderbergh.
14	Graduated from Emerson College.
15	All of Spalding Gray's monologues were initially performed in The Performing Garage in Soho in New York City and/or Lincoln Center in New York City before being set to film.
16	Best known for his monologue films Swimming to Cambodia (1987), Monster in a Box (1992), and Gray's Anatomy (1996), in which the sole action in the film is Gray sitting at a microphone telling his stories.



Actor

Actor

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Paper Mache Chase	2003	Short	Dr. Calhoun
How High	2001		Prof. Jackson
Kate & Leopold	2001		Dr. Geisler
Revolution #9	2001		Scooter McCrae
Julie Johnson	2001		Mr. Tom Miranda
The Mike O'Malley Show	1999	TV Series	Professor Beaumont
Coming Soon	1999		Mr. Jennings
The Nanny	1997-1998	TV Series	Dr. Jack Miller
Bliss	1997		Alfred
Jimmy Zip	1996	Short
Diabolique	1996		Simon Veatch
Glory Daze	1995		Jack's Dad
Drunks	1995		Louis
Beyond Rangoon	1995		Jeremy Watt
Bad Company	1995		Walter Curl
The Paper	1994		Paul Bladden
Zelda	1993	TV Movie	Sayre
King of the Hill	1993		Mr. Mungo
The Pickle	1993		Doctor
Twenty Bucks	1993		Priest
Straight Talk	1992		Dr. Erdman
To Save a Child	1991	TV Movie	Hobart
The Image	1990	TV Movie	Frank Goodrich
Great Performances	1989	TV Series	Stage Manager
Beaches	1988		Dr. Richard Milstein
Clara's Heart	1988		Peter Epstein
Stars and Bars	1988		Reverend T.J. Cardew
What You Mean We?	1987	TV Movie	Talk Show Host (voice)
Trying Times	1987	TV Series	Gary
Spenser: For Hire	1987	TV Series	Edward Niles
True Stories	1986		Earl Culver
Alive from Off Center	1986	TV Series	Talk Show Host
Seven Minutes in Heaven	1985		Dr. Rodney
Almost You	1985		Travel agent
Hard Choices	1985		Terry Norfolk
The Killing Fields	1984		U.S. Consul
Variety	1983	voice
Anybody's Woman	1981	Short
Maraschino Cherry	1978		Penny's Client with Beard (uncredited)
Saturday Night Live	1977	TV Series	Narrator of 'Brides'
The Farmer's Daughters	1976		George (as Spaulding Gray, Spalding Gray)
Love-In '72	1970		Radical at Party

Writer

Writer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Gray's Anatomy	1996	monologue
Monster in a Box	1992
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure	1988	writer
Trying Times	1987	TV Series writer - 1 episode
Swimming to Cambodia	1987
Alive from Off Center	1985	TV Series 1 episode
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.	1984	Short

Self

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
And Everything Is Going Fine	2010	Documentary	Himself
Gray Memorial	2005	Documentary short
New York: A Documentary Film	1999-2001	TV Series documentary	Himself - Comentator
The 20th Century: Yesterday's Tomorrows	1999	TV Movie documentary	Himself
American Experience	1997-1999	TV Series documentary	Himself
The Daily Show	1997	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Gray's Anatomy	1996		Himself
Late Night with Conan O'Brien	1993-1995	TV Series	Himself - Guest
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	1992-1993	TV Series	Himself - Guest
Monster in a Box	1992		Himself
Caffe Lena	1990	Documentary
Late Night with David Letterman	1986-1990	TV Series	Himself / Himself - Guest
Heavy Petting	1989	Documentary	Himself
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure	1988		Himself
Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress	1988	TV Short	Himself
Swimming to Cambodia	1987		Himself
The Communists Are Comfortable	1985	Documentary
Alive from Off Center	1985	TV Series	Himself
Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.	1984	Short	Himself

Archive Footage

Archive Footage

Title	Year	Status	Character
Yarns to Be Spun on the Way to the Happy Home	2007	Short	Himself
Laurie Anderson: Collected Videos	1990	Video	Himself - Interviewer (uncredited)

Nominated awards

Nominated awards

Year	Award	Ceremony	Nomination	Movie	Award shared with
1988	Independent Spirit Award	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Male Lead	Swimming to Cambodia (1987)
1988	Independent Spirit Award	Independent Spirit Awards	Best Screenplay	Swimming to Cambodia (1987)



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#	Quote
1	[on Roland Joffé] He has the demeanour of Christ, the eyes of Rasputin and the body of Zorro.



#	Trademark
1	New England accent



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