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I do not own the rights to this long out-of-print, 1988 HBO special in which Spalding Gray delivers his monologue Terrors of Pleasure. I share this in the in...
60m 1987. Overview. Synopsis. Credits. Film Details. Brief Synopsis. A special in which actor/monologist Spalding Gray performs "The Terrors of Pleasure," recalling how his purchase of a bucolic country retreat became a rendezvous with disaster. Cast & Crew. Read More. Thomas Schlamme. Director. Spalding Gray. Alan Adelman. Lighting Director.
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- Spalding Gray
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure is a 1987 filming of a monologue written and performed by Spalding Gray. The monologue is composed of material from the original stage performance Swimming to Cambodia that was not used in the 1987 film. Overview. Gray chronicles the adventures he shared with his girlfriend, Renee, in the Catskills.
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure: Directed by Thomas Schlamme. With Spalding Gray, Bonnie Crotty, Ron Dunham, Bob Egan. In this comedic monologue, Spalding Gray talks about impulse-buying an old cabin in the woods and the various, constant upkeep required.
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Spalding Rockwell Gray was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to Rockwell Gray Sr., the treasurer of Brown & Sharpe, and Margaret Elizabeth "Betty" (née Horton) Gray. He was the second of three sons; his brothers were Rockwell Jr. and Channing. They were raised in their mother's Christian Science faith. Gray and his brothers grew up in Barrington, R...
Gray began his theater career in New York in the late 1960s. In 1970, he joined Richard Schechner's experimental troupe The Performance Group. With actors from The Performance Group, including Willem Dafoe and Elizabeth LeCompte, Gray co-founded the theater company The Wooster Group. He worked with it from 1975 to 1980, before leaving the company t...
In June 2001, Gray was severely injured in a car crash while on vacation in Ireland. In the crash, he suffered a broken hip, which left his right leg almost immobilized, and a fracture in his skull. During surgery on his skull, a titanium plate was placed over the break after surgeons removed dozens of bone fragments from his frontal cortex, leavin...
Movies written and performed by Spalding Gray
1. Swimming to Cambodia(1987) 2. Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure(1988) 3. Monster in a Box(1991) 4. Gray's Anatomy(1996) 5. And Everything Is Going Fine (2010) 5.1. In addition to the five theatrically released film versions of Gray's monologues, video recordings from 1982 of Sex and Death at the Age of 14 and A Personal History of the American Theater were released by the Criterion Collection on the DVDs of And Everything Is Going Fine and Gray's Anatomy, respectively.
Television
1. Saturday Night Live(1 episode, 1977) - Narrator of 'Brides' (voice, uncredited) 2. Spenser: For Hire(1 episode, 1987) - Edward Niles 3. Trying Times(1 episode, 1987) - Gary 4. The Nanny(9 episodes, 1997–1998) - Dr. Jack Miller 5. The Mike O'Malley Show(1 episode, 1999) - Professor Beaumont 6. Will & Grace(1 episode, 2000)
Spalding Gray Papers and the John Boland Collection of Spalding Gray at the Harry Ransom CenterSpalding Gray at IMDbSpalding Gray at the Internet Broadway DatabaseSpalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure (TV Movie 1987) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure. 1987 Directed by Thomas Schlamme. Monologue by Spalding Gray about his misadventures in purchasing a home. Cast. Crew. Details. Genres. Releases.
