Joseph Kramm

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Joseph A. Kramm (born September 30, 1907 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania - † 8 May 1992 in Far Rockaway , Queens , New York City ) was an American actor and playwright , who for his play The Shrike in 1952 with the Pulitzer Prize for Theater was awarded.

Life

Kramm initially worked as an actor and played in several theater productions on Broadway in the 1930s, such as the old man from the Capulet family and a Franciscan, the 'Keller' in Siegfried (1930) by Jean in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1930) Giraudoux , in The Green Cockatoo (1930) by Arthur Schnitzler and the Dodo in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (1932). In 1940 he played the role of Linzmann in a production by Ferenc Molnár's Liliom .

After the Second World War he began to work as a playwright and wrote his first play with The Cry of the Watchman (1947). He had his greatest success with his play The Shrike (1952), for which he was honored with the Pulitzer Prize for Theater and which was filmed in 1955 by José Ferrer under the title of the same name The Shrike (German title: In all these nights ). At times he also worked as a director and in 1962 staged a Broadway production of his play Giants, Sons of Giants .

His first marriage was to actress Isabel Bonner , who died of complications from an intracerebral hemorrhage on July 1, 1955 during a performance of The Shrike in Los Angeles . His second marriage to actress Janet Chandler was divorced on April 4, 1956 after less than three months of marriage.

Dramas

  • 1947: The Cry of the Watchman
  • 1952: The Shrike
  • 1962: Giants, Sons of Giants

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SURNAME Kramm, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kramm, Joseph A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American playwright, screenwriter, actor, and director
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1992
Place of death Far Rockaway , Queens , New York City