Self is a real person portrayed by Spalding Gray in the TV series American Experience (based on a true story).
In the first episode they appeared in, titled The Telephone (season 9), they were 55 years old.
They appear in 5 episodes out of a total of 387 aired so far
Self is also portrayed by Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Joan Fontaine, Judy Garland, Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra, Orson Welles, Charles Chaplin, Martin Scorsese and Nancy Allen.
Episodes5
The Telephone
episode S9.E5 february 1997The telephone was first introduced at the Centennial Exposition in 1876 and was an instant success. Although first rented only to "persons of good breeding" and seen as an expensive luxury for doctors and businessmen, the telephone soon transformed American life. Trees gave way to telephone poles as operators known as "hello girls" began to connect a sprawling continent.
New York: Part II - Order and Disorder
episode S12.E2 november 1999Episode two looks at New York's rise as a burgeoning cultural center and multi-ethnic port.
New York: Part V - Cosmopolis
episode S12.E5 november 1999Episode five tells the African-American experience and the birth of the new media industries.
New York: Part 6 - The City of Tomorrow
episode S14.E1 september 2001Reveals the immense new forces that were unleashed in New York.
New York: Part 7 - The City and the World
episode S14.E2 october 2001Episode seven chronicles the history of New York from the end of the Second World War to the present.
- The Telephone
- New York: Part II - Order and Disorder
- New York: Part V - Cosmopolis
- New York: Part 6 - The City of Tomorrow
- New York: Part 7 - The City and the World