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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”

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American director Stanley Kramer
Promotional poster for High Noon
The Pride and the Passion
Judgment at Nuremberg
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Inherit the Wind
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Francis Ford Coppola directing The Godfather: Part II
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Robert Wise
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Cecil B. DeMille
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Orson Welles
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