playing characters based on themselves, have a long conversation over dinner. They discuss Gregory's spiritual sojourn in Europe and his doubts about the future of theatre and of Western civilization in general. He appeared with Goldie Hawn in Protocol (1984). In 1988 he played the father in Some Girls, with Jennifer Connelly and Patrick Dempsey. In 1993, he performed in the movie Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone. Returning to theatre, Gregory directed Shawn's play Grasses of a Thousand Colors, which premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in May 2009. He next worked with Shawn on a new version of Ibsen's The Master Builder. This resulted in the film Fear of Falling (2013), directed by Jonathan Demme. The film was retitled A Master Builder at its opening in New York in June 2014. In 2013, he directed Grasses of a Thousand Colors and The Designated Mourner, starring Shawn in a co-production between Theatre for a New Audience and The Public Theater in New York. A 2013 documentary about Gregory's life, Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner, was directed by his wife, Cindy Kleine. He and Kleine discussed it on the May 3, 2013, episode of Charlie Rose. In May 2020, Gregory released his memoir, This Is Not My Memoir (with Todd London; Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ). Marriage and family Gregory was first married to Mercedes "Chiquita" Nebelthau, a documentary filmmaker who died in 1992. They had two children together, Nicolas and Marina. Partial filmography My Dinner with Andre (1981) as Andre Author! Author! (1982) as J.J. Protocol (1984) as Nawaf Al Kabeer The Soldier's Tale (1984) as Narrator (voice) Always (1985) as Party Philosopher The Mosquito Coast (1986) as Reverend Spellgood Street Smart (1987) as Ted Avery The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) as John the Baptist Some Girls (1988) as Mr. D'Arc The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) as Aubrey Buffing The Linguini Incident (1991) as Dante Demolition Man (1993) as Warden William Smithers The Shadow (1994) as Burbank Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) as Himself Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995) as Ivan Axelrod Hudson River Blues (1997) as Will Goodbye Lover (1998) as Rev. Finlayson Celebrity (1998) as John Papadakis Bonne Nuit (1999, TV Movie) as Patrice Judge Koan (2003) as Zen Master (Voice) Lucy Arnaz A Master Builder (2013) as Knut Brovik The Young Pope (2016) as Elmore Cohen References External links Charlie Rose