
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.

Yesterday's Tomorrows

Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure

Love-In '72

Prisoner's Dilemma

Our Town

ザ・ナニー

キリング・フィールド

サタデー・ナイト・ライブ

Swimming to Cambodia

わが街 セントルイス

トゥルー・ストーリー

Spenser: For Hire

フォエバー・フレンズ

ラングーンを越えて

ザ・ペーパー

Gray's Anatomy

And Everything Is Going Fine

ニューヨークの恋人

ビー・バッド・ボーイズ

Monster in a Box

Straight Talk

Seven Minutes in Heaven

Great Performances

Twenty Bucks

Coming Soon

悪魔のような女

Bliss

Clara's Heart

Almost You

The Farmer's Daughters

Julie Johnson

Variety

Heavy Petting

Glory Daze

Spalding Gray's Map of L.A.

Bad Company

The Pickle

The Image

Maraschino Cherry

Stars & Bars

Revolution #9

To Save a Child

Drunks

Hard Choices

Confessions of a Sociopath

Double Lunar Dogs

Zelda

Anybody's Woman

A Personal History of the American Theater

Sex and Death to the Age 14

Rumstick Road

Spalding Gray: A Life in Progress

Laurie Anderson: The Collected Videos

Alive from Off Center