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Andre Gregory

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The director and actor Andre Gregory was born on May 11, 1934, to a family he describes as fugitives from Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. Gregory was born in a hotel in Paris, his mother reportedly having just played cards with the Turkish ambassador. His childhood was spent in Hollywood amongst the stars of the 1940s. Gregory attended Harvard and then studied acting, but was unable to find his feet in that profession. Theatrical success finally came to Gregory as a director in the avant-garde theater in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and New York. By the late 1960s he had established himself as a prominent director in New York experimental theater, collaborating with such luminaries as the legendary Polish director Jerzy Grotowski. Probably the most remarkable achievement in this early summit of Gregory's career came in 1970 when his theater group, The Manhattan Project, staged "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" in New York for a year, which then went on to tour the world to acclaim, and earned him OBIE and Drama Desk Awards for his directing.

In the early 1970s, Gregory underwent an existential crisis in his life and work which essentially brought this successful career to a halt. Five years later, as he began to emerge from a period of doubt and introspection, he met with and shared his many recent experiences -- all unique, some even bizarre -- with a friend, the actor and writer Wallace Shawn. (Gregory had met Shawn when Shawn famously attended every performance of Gregory's 1970 "Alice in Wonderland" staging.) Shawn was impressed by Gregory's humane, articulate way of relating this painful time in his life, and saw the potential for humor in the huge personality difference between the two friends, and suggested that the couple consider staging these discussions as a movie. The result, in collaboration with director Louis Malle, was My Dinner with Andre (1981), one of the most unique, touching, and funny movie-going experiences in modern cinema.

The success of "My Dinner with Andre" marked the end of Gregory's hibernation, and he returned to directing plays in his extremely slow and deliberate way - Gregory often works with the cast of a play for a year or longer before taking the play to an audience. Remarkably, the exposure "My Dinner with Andre" gave him resulted, finally, in the acting career which eluded him so long ago, and has since led to roles in such films as The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and The Mosquito Coast (1986) as well as acting work on Broadway. Gregory's work with an acting troupe on the play "Uncle Vanya" in a decaying theater in Times Square was brought to the screen in Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), also directed by Malle (it would be his last film). Ironically, one of Gregory's first roles after "My Dinner with Andre" brought him back to _Alice in Wonderland (1983) (TV)_, this time as an actor, in a production for PBS.

A lifelong progressive, Gregory has increasingly devoted his time to political causes. Gregory was married to the prominent New York filmmaker and theater producer Mercedes (Chiquita) Gregory for many years. Mercedes passed away, and Gregory recently married filmmaker Cindy Kleine. Gregory and Kleine now live on Cape Cod.
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Willem Dafoe and Andre Gregory in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
Tom Hanks, Andre Gregory, and Adina Winston in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Hilary Gordon, Rebecca Gordon, Andre Gregory, and Jadrien Steele in The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory
Harrison Ford, Helen Mirren, Hilary Gordon, Rebecca Gordon, Andre Gregory, and Jadrien Steele in The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory in My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory in My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory in My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Jennifer Connelly, Florinda Bolkan, Ashley Greenfield, Andre Gregory, and Sheila Kelley in Some Girls (1988)
Jennifer Connelly, Patrick Dempsey, Florinda Bolkan, Lance Edwards, Ashley Greenfield, Andre Gregory, Lila Kedrova, and Sheila Kelley in Some Girls (1988)
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory in My Dinner with Andre (1981)
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory in My Dinner with Andre (1981)

Known for

My Dinner with Andre (1981)
My Dinner with Andre
7.7
  • Andre Gregory
  • 1981
Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man (1993)
Demolition Man
6.7
  • Warden William Smithers - Aged
  • 1993
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
The Last Temptation of Christ
7.5
  • John The Baptist
  • 1988
The Shadow (1994)
The Shadow
6.0
  • Burbank
  • 1994

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Actor

  • Jude Law in The Young Pope (2016)
    The Young Pope
  • A Master Builder (2013)
    A Master Builder
  • Judge Koan (2003)
    Judge Koan
    • (voice)
  • Bonne Nuit
  • Kenneth Branagh, Leonardo DiCaprio, Winona Ryder, Charlize Theron, Melanie Griffith, Famke Janssen, Judy Davis, Joe Mantegna, and Bebe Neuwirth in Celebrity (1998)
    Celebrity
  • Patricia Arquette in Goodbye Lover (1998)
    Goodbye Lover
  • Jane Krakowski, Mason Adams, Polly Draper, Tovah Feldshuh, Rya Kihlstedt, and Lois Smith in Hudson River Blues (1997)
    Hudson River Blues
  • Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995)
    Last Summer in the Hamptons
  • The Shadow (1994)
    The Shadow
  • Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man (1993)
    Demolition Man
  • Tribeca (1993)
    Tribeca
  • Rosanna Arquette and David Bowie in The Linguini Incident (1991)
    The Linguini Incident
  • Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, and Melanie Griffith in The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
  • Jennifer Connelly, Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Greenfield, and Sheila Kelley in Some Girls (1988)
    Some Girls
  • The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
    The Last Temptation of Christ

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  • A Master Builder (2013)
    A Master Builder
  • Phyllis and Harold (2008)
    Phyllis and Harold
  • Judge Koan (2003)
    Judge Koan

Writer

  • Julianne Moore in Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
    Vanya on 42nd Street
  • My Dinner with Andre (1981)
    My Dinner with Andre

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    • May 11, 1934
    • Paris, France
    • Cindy Kleine2000 - present
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    Founder, leader of the Manhattan Project, an innovative New York theatre troupe whose productions include "Endgame," "The Seagull" and "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

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