Stanley Kramer

Stanley Kramer (September 29, 1913 – February 19,2001) was a Jewish-American film director and producer. Six of his films received Academy Award nominations as best picture. Kramer was born in New York, New York and graduated from New York University in 1933.

Filmography

As director

• Not as a Stranger (1955)
• 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)
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967).

As producer

• Champion (1949)
• Home of the Brave (1949)
• The Men (1950)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
• Death of a Salesman (1951)
• High Noon (1952)
• The Wild One (1954)
• The Caine Mutiny (1954).