Spalding Gray

Age: 62 (passed away Jan. 10th, 2004)
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Birth Place: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Born: Jun. 5th, 1941

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Spalding Gray's Main TV Roles

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

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TRIVIA:

Had two sons with 'Kathleen Russo' (qv): Forrest and Theo.
Graduated from Emerson College.
His depression worsened when his family moved from the house he loved in Sag Harbor to one he hated in New Haven.
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.
The directors of the filmed versions of Gray's monologues _Swimming to Cambodia (1987)_ (qv), _Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure (1988)_ (qv), _Monster in a Box (1992)_ (qv) and _Gray's Anatomy (1996)_ (qv) , are all considered to be of the first rank: respectively 'Jonathan Demme' (qv), 'Thomas Schlamme (I)' (qv) (multi Emmy-winning producer and director of _"The West Wing" (1999)_ (qv)), 'Nick Broomfield' (qv) (renowned British documentary maker) and 'Steven Soderbergh' (qv).
Best known for his monologue films _Swimming to Cambodia (1987)_ (qv), _Monster in a Box (1992)_ (qv), and _Gray's Anatomy (1996)_ (qv), in which the sole action in the film is Gray sitting at a microphone telling his stories.
Biography in "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives," Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 215-218. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
Said that only his children could make him laugh

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