Person
Larry Kramer
Acting · 1935–2020 · Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Biography
Laurence David Kramer (June 25, 1935 – May 27, 2020) was an American playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and gay rights activist. He began his career rewriting scripts while working for Columbia Pictures, which led him to London, where he worked with United Artists. There he wrote the screenplay for the film Women in Love (1969) and received an Academy Award nomination for his work.
Known for
Tony Awards
Self - Winner
Women in Love
Writer
The Normal Heart
Screenplay
Gay Sex in the 70s
Himself
Howard
Self (archive footage)
Every Act of Life
Self
Lost Horizon
Screenplay
The Out List
Himself
Sex Positive
Self
After Stonewall
Self
Filmography
- 2018Every Act of LifeSelf
- 2018HowardSelf (archive footage)
- 2017Burden of GeniusSelf – Writer/Activist/Liver Transplant Patient
- 2015Larry Kramer In Love & AngerHimself
- 2014The Normal HeartScreenplay
- 2013Corpus Christi: Playing with RedemptionSelf
- 2013The Out ListHimself
- 2012How to Survive a PlagueSelf
- 2012Stories from the Plague
- 2012Joe Papp in Five ActsSelf
- 201130 Years from HereHimself
- 2011VitoSelf
- 2011Making the BoysSelf
- 2009Sex PositiveSelf
- 2009OutrageSelf
- 2006The Books of James: Director's CutSelf
- 2005Gay Sex in the 70sHimself
- 2004People Like Us: Making 'Philadelphia'Archival Footage Coordinator
- 1999After StonewallSelf
- 1992Voices from the FrontHimself
- 1990PositiveSelf
- 1989Common Threads: Stories from the QuiltSelf (archive footage)
- 1973Lost HorizonScreenplay
- 1969Women in LoveWriter
- 1969Look at Life: All in a Day's WorkSelf
- 1968Here We Go Round the Mulberry BushAssociate Producer
- 1966Reflections on LoveWriter
- 1956Tony AwardsSelf - Winner
- —The Man on the Fifth Floor
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