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