Stanley Kramer: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Stanley Earl Kramer
Born	September 29, 1913 • New York City • New York
Died	February 19, 2001 (aged 87) • California
Awards And Honors	Academy Award • Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1962)
Notable Works	“Inherit the Wind” • “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” • “Judgment at Nuremberg” • “On the Beach” • ”The Defiant Ones” • “The Runner Stumbles”

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American director Stanley Kramer

Black-and-white movie poster for High Noon featuring a large close-up of Gary Cooper in a cowboy hat, with smaller action scenes and the title High Noon on the left.

Sophia Loren as Juana in The Pride and the Passion wears a headscarf and simple dress, standing outdoors with carts and hills in the background.

Richard Widmark, in a military uniform, sits at a courtroom table with his hands folded in a scene from the 1961 film Judgment at Nuremberg.

Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn, and Katharine Houghton in a dining room scene from the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Black-and-white publicity still from It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World showing Edie Adams, Sid Caesar, Jonathan Winters, Dorothy Provine, Ethel Merman, Milton Berle, and Mickey Rooney standing outdoors in conversation.

Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind

Inherit the Wind

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Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas

American actor and producer

Master of suspense

Alfred Hitchcock

English-born American director

Steven Spielberg wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival.

Steven Spielberg

American film director and producer

William Wyler

William Wyler

German-born American director

Billy Wilder poses in a suit and hat, leaning against a streetlamp with a sign reading Sunset Blvd. in a promotional photo for the film Sunset Boulevard.

Billy Wilder

Austrian-born American director and producer

Francis Ford Coppola, with a beard, sits on a camera dolly surrounded by crew and actors on the set of The Godfather: Part II, with storefronts in the background.

Francis Ford Coppola

American director and screenwriter

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Mervyn LeRoy

American director and producer

George Stevens

George Stevens

American director

Cecil B. DeMille, wearing a dark suit and patterned tie, smiles while looking to the side in this black-and-white portrait.

Cecil B. DeMille

American film director

George Lucas wearing a black suit and tie with a white shirt, standing in front of a dark backdrop at the 2017 LACMA Art Film Gala in Los Angeles.

George Lucas

American director, producer, and screenwriter

Warren Beatty wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and light tie, posing at an event with a dark background, 2006.

Warren Beatty

American actor, director, and producer

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

American actor, director, and writer

Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background.

Martin Scorsese

American filmmaker

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

John Huston

American director, writer, and actor

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Frank Capra

American film director

Elia Kazan stands on a docked ship set with arms outstretched, directing a scene for Panic in the Streets in New Orleans, with crew members and rigging visible behind him.

Elia Kazan

American director and author

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

American filmmaker

Sydney Pollack

Sydney Pollack

American director, producer, and actor

Mel Brooks in a tuxedo smiles widely and points at his Emmy Award trophy while posing in front of a blue Emmy Awards backdrop.

Mel Brooks

American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor

Leo McCarey, seated sideways in a director's chair, looks toward the camera in a black-and-white portrait from around 1930.

Leo McCarey

American director

Empty movie theater and blank screen (theatre, motion pictures, cinema).

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