Stanley Kramer
Director
Biography
Stanley Earl Kramer (September 29, 1913 – February 19, 2001) was an American film director and producer responsible for some of Hollywood's most famous "message" movies. His notable films include The Defiant Ones (1958), On the Beach (1959), Inherit the Wind (1960), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Ship of Fools (1965) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). His work was recognized with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 1961, and over the course of his career he received nine Academy Award nominations.
Director Steven Spielberg once described him as "one of our great filmmakers, not just for the art and passion he put on screen, but for the impact he has made on the conscience of the world." Film critic David Thomson described Kramer as a "hero of the 1950s" and an "enterprising producer," but also wrote of his later films that "commercialism, of the most crass and confusing kind, has devitalised all [of] his projects".
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Filmography
The Spencer Tracy Legacy: A Tribute by Katharine Hepburn
as Self 1986
Cary Grant: A Celebration of a Leading Man
as Self 1988
Anthony Quinn: An Original
as Self 1990
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
as Host 1975
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
as Self 1987
Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light
2000
Brando: An Icon Is Born
as Himself (archive footage) 2007
The Making of High Noon
as Self 1992
Vivien Leigh: Scarlett and Beyond
as Self 1990
A Tribute to Stanley Kramer
as Self (archive footage) 2004
I'll Teach You to Dream
1985
A Special Kind of Love
as Self (archive footage) 2008
Stanley Kramer: A Man's Search for Truth
as Self (archive footage) 2008
Bogart: Here's Looking at You, Kid
as Self 1997
Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
as Host 1974
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
as Self 1991