Film-maker Stanley Kramer Dies

By Jack February 20, 2001 11:45 AM

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Film-maker Stanley Earl Kramer, who produced and directed some of Hollywood's most famous "message" movies, has died at the age of 87.

Among his best-known pictures were the Western classic "High Noon", "The Defiant Ones", starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier as escaped convicts; the anti-nuclear "On the Beach", starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner; "Inherit the Wind", about the right to teach evolution in public schools; and "Judgement at Nuremberg", about the Nazi war crimes tribunal.

He also taught at the University of Washington and wrote a weekly column for the Seattle Times.

According to his wife, actress Karen Sharpe Kramer, he died on Monday at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, having recently developed pneumonia.

Click here for his complete filmography.

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