Spalding Gray
Spalding Gray (born
June 5,
1941) is an
actor,
screenwriter and
playwright. He is best known for his performance monologues, which deal with events from his own life in a style characterised by humour, paranoia and acute self-consciousness. He has attracted some attention from postmodernist critics over the extent of the overlap between his off-stage self and his on-stage persona, and has sometimes been criticised as exploitative for the way he appropriates the fortunes or misfortunes of others for material for his monologues. He was a founding member of the experimental theater company
The Wooster Group. In January 2004 Gray, known to suffer bouts of depression, was declared missing.
Below is a chronological filmography.
- 2001 Kate and Leopold - Actor: Dr. Geisler
- 2001 How High - Actor: Professor Jackson
- 2001 Julie Johnson - Actor: Mr. Miranda
- 2001 Revolution #9 - Actor: Scooter McCrae
- 1999 Coming Soon - Actor: Mr. Jennings
- 1997 Drunks - Actor: Louis
- 1996 Diabolique - Actor: Simon Veatch
- 1996 Gray's Anatomy - Screenwriter
- 1996 Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud
- 1996 Glory Daze
- 1996 Bliss - Actor: Alfred
- 1995 Hoogste Tijd - Actor: Jack's Father
- 1995 Bad Company - Actor: Walter Curl
- 1995 Beyond Rangoon - Actor: Jeremy Watt
- 1994 The Paper - Actor: Paul Bladden
- 1993 The Pickle - Actor: Dr. Spalding
- 1993 Twenty Bucks - Actor: Priest
- 1993 Zelda
- 1993 King of the Hil - Actor: Mr. Mungo
- 1992 Straight Talk - Actor: Dr. Erdman
- 1991 Monster in a Box - Actor: Himself, Himself Also: Screenwriter
- 1991 To Save a Child - Actor: Hobart
- 1991 Spalding Gray: Monster in a Box
- 1989 Heavy Petting
- 1989 The Image - Actor: Frank Goodrich
- 1988 Clara's Heart - Actor: Dr. Peter Epstein
- 1988 Stars and Bars - Actor: Rev. Cardew
- 1988 Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure
- 1988 Beaches - Actor: Dr. Richard Milstein
- 1987 Swimming to Cambodia - Actor: Himself, Himself Also: Screenwriter
- 1986 Seven Minutes in Heaven - Actor: Dr. Rodney
- 1986 True Stories - Actor: Earl Culver
- 1985 The Communists Are Comfortable (And Three Other Stories)
- 1984 The Killing Fields - Actor: United States consul
- 1984 Hard Choices - Actor: Terry Norfolk
- 1984 Almost You - Actor: Travel Agent
- 1983 Variety
- 1976 Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks - Actor: The Sheik
- 1970 Cowards - Actor: Radical