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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". Description above from the Wikipedia article Stanley Kramer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
September 29, 1913
Died
February 19, 2001 (age 87)
Birthplace
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Filmography
75 films, 10 shows


The Runner Stumbles
1979 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Dick Van Dyke stars as a priest accused of murdering a nun. Directed by Stanley Kramer, this 1979 drama also features Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Stapleton, Ray Bolger, Beau Bridges and Tammy Grimes.


The Domino Principle
1977 · 1h 38m
country: United Kingdom
Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.


Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
1975 · 1h 41m
country: United States
This docudrama follows the court-martial of the title character, the man held responsible for the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.


Judgment: The Court Martial of the Tiger of Malaya — General Yamashita
1974 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Dramatization of the trial of General Yamashita.


Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
1974 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg died for betraying atomic secrets. Were they guilty beyond a reasonable doubt?


Oklahoma Crude
1973 · 1h 48m
country: United States
In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.


Bless the Beasts & Children
1971 · 1h 42m
country: United States
A group of social misfits at a summer camp for boys run away to save penned-in buffaloes from a rifle club's slaughter.


R.P.M.
1970 · 1h 32m
country: United States
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, and Quinn's character, who has always been a champion of student activism, is appointed president. As the students continue to push the envelope of revolution, Quinn's character is faced with the challenge of restoring order or abetting the descent into anarchy.


The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1970 · 2h 19m
country: United States
During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.


Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967 · 1h 48m
country: United States
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.


Ship of Fools
1965 · 2h 29m
country: United States
A varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early-1930s society.


It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
1963 · 3h 12m
country: United States
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.


Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 · 3h 11m
country: United States
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.


Inherit the Wind
1960 · 2h 8m
country: United States
Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.


On the Beach
1959 · 2h 14m
country: United States
In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?


The Defiant Ones
1958 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.


The Pride and the Passion
1957 · 2h 12m
country: United States
During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are going to move a big cannon across Spain in order to help the British defeat the French. A British officer is there to accompany the Spanish and along the way, he falls in love with the leader's girl.


Not as a Stranger
1955 · 2h 15m
country: United States
Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.