Spalding Gray

Spalding Gray (June 5, 1941 – about January 10, 2004) was a U.S. actor, screenwriter and playwright. Born in Barrington, Rhode Island, he was 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.

Death

On March 7, 2004, the New York City medical examiner's office reported that at 15:00 Spalding Gray's body had been pulled from the East River. In light of a suicide attempt in 2002, and the fact that his mother had taken her own life in 1967, suicide was the suspected cause of death. It was reported that Gray was working on a new monologue at the time of his death, and that the subject matter of the piece – the Ireland car crash and his subsequent attempts to recover from his injuries – might have triggered his final bout of depression.

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March 7 - 2004 - East River - Suicide - 2002 - 1967

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Gray was survived by his wife, Kathie Russo, three children, and his brothers Rockwell Gray, an English professor in St. Louis, and Channing Gray, arts writer for the Providence (RI) Journal.

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St. Louis - Providence

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