Add/Update Information: Stanley Kramer - Director

American director and producer, born on September 29, 1913 in New York, to Jewish parents who separated when he was still young. He graduated from New York University in 1933, after studying Business Administration, and then moved to Hollywood and worked at Fox. He participated with the US Army during World War II in the Signal Corps, but with the end of the war his opportunities to work in the cinema narrowed. In 1949, he made his production debut in Champion. Among his most famous works are: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), and Inherit the Wind (1960). He got married three times and his last marriage remained till his death on February 19, 2001 in Los Angeles, after he contracted pneumonia.