Spalding Gray Born: 5-Jun-1941 Birthplace: Barrington, RI Died: 11-Jan-2004 Location of death: New York City Cause of death: Suicide Remains: Buried, Oakland Cemetery, Sag Harbor, NY
Gender: Male Religion: Atheist Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Bisexual [1] Occupation: Actor, Author Nationality: United States Executive summary: Swimming to Cambodia monologist Actor Spalding Gray was best known for his monologues, in particular Swimming To Cambodia (1987), which documents his experience in the film The Killing Fields. While vacationing in Ireland, Gray was in a serious automobile accident in 2001. The nature of his relationships is muddled in the press: it is not entirely clear if Gray has had two or three wives, or has two or three sons. In January 2004, his wife Russo reported Gray missing -- ominous because of two previous suicide attempts, one of which she and police talked him down from a bridge. Gray's body was recovered from the East River in New York City on 8 March 2004. [1] Journal entry, 18 March 1972: "Very confused about my bisexual feelings... If I crave a relationship with a man, I am not aware of it. I think the problem is more centered on desirous search for the young... youth! Youth! Youth! The golden boys and girls of my fantasy." Journal entry, 29 May 1973: "Then during this period, I went to a homosexual bath club in Amsterdam and was 'picked up' by this German photographer. He was very aggressive, and he made love to me like I was this beautiful woman... I had never experienced such a complete giving over before." Both entries are quoted by Nell Casey, "Spalding Gray’s Tortured Soul", The New York Times, 18 March 1972.
Father: Rockwell Gray, Sr. (lived into his 80s) Mother: Margaret Elizabeth Horton Gray ("Elizabeth", d. 1967 suicide, age 52) Brother: Rockwell Gray, Jr. Brother: Channing Gray Girlfriend: Elizabeth LeCompte Wife: Renee Shafransky Wife: Ramona (was married when Forrest was born to girlfriend Kathy. div.) Wife: Kathie/Kathy Russo Son: Forrest (first child, to Kathy) Son: Theo (b. circa 1998) Son: Leo (second son, perhaps this is Theo)
University: Emerson College
Guggenheim Fellowship Suicide Attempt Long Island, NY (Oct-2002) Esalen Speaker Famous Missing Persons Autopsy Risk Factors: Claustrophobia, Depression, Dyslexia, Insomnia
TELEVISION The Nanny Dr. Jack Miller (1997-98)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR And Everything Is Going Fine (Jan-2010) · Himself Kate & Leopold (25-Dec-2001) How High (17-Dec-2001) Revolution #9 (22-Apr-2001) Julie Johnson (26-Jan-2001) Coming Soon (17-Apr-1999) Bliss (14-Apr-1997) Glory Daze (27-Sep-1996) · Jack's Dad Gray's Anatomy (11-Sep-1996) · Himself Diabolique (22-Mar-1996) Drunks (23-Aug-1995) Beyond Rangoon (24-May-1995) Bad Company (20-Jan-1995) The Paper (18-Mar-1994) · Paul Bladden Zelda (7-Nov-1993) Twenty Bucks (22-Oct-1993) King of the Hill (20-Aug-1993) · Mr. Mungo The Pickle (30-Apr-1993) Monster in a Box (15-May-1992) · Himself Straight Talk (3-Apr-1992) · Dr. Erdman The Image (27-Jan-1990) Heavy Petting (7-Sep-1989) · Himself Beaches (21-Dec-1988) · Dr. Richard Milstein Clara's Heart (7-Oct-1988) · Peter Epstein Stars and Bars (18-Mar-1988) Swimming to Cambodia (13-Mar-1987) · Himself True Stories (10-Oct-1986) · Earl Culver Seven Minutes in Heaven (9-May-1985) Almost You (Jan-1985) Hard Choices (1985) The Killing Fields (2-Nov-1984) · U.S. Consul Variety (10-Sep-1983) · Obscene Phone Voice [VOICE]
Author of books:
In Search of the Monkey Girl (1982) Swimming to Cambodia (1985) Sex and Death to the Age 14 (1986) Monster in a Box (1992) Impossible Vacation (1992, novel) Gray's Anatomy (1994) It's a Slippery Slope (1997) Morning, Noon and Night (1999) Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue (2005) The Journals of Spalding Gray (2011, journal)
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