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Larry Kramer is an American playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate, and LGBT 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 1969 film Women in Love (1969) and earned an Academy Award nomination for his work. Kramer introduced a controversial and confrontational style in his novel Faggots (1978), which earned mixed reviews and emphatic denunciations from elements within the gay community for Kramer's portrayal of what he characterized as shallow, promiscuous gay relationships in the 1970s.
Birth Name
Laurence David Kramer
Born
Tuesday, 25 June 1935
Died
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed | Self - Playwright & Activist | 2023 |
Fauci | Self | 2021 |
The Reagans | Self - Co-Founder, ACT UP | 2020 |
History 101 | Self | 2020 |
Visible: Out on Television | Self (activist) | 2020 |
Every Act of Life | Himself / Self | 2018 |
The Eighties | Co-founder, Gay Men's Health Crisis / Co-founder, Act Up / Self - Author and Playwright | 2016 |
Larry Kramer in Love and Anger | Himself / Self | 2015 |
Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption | Self | 2014 |
The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards | Self - Nominee | 2014 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed | Self - Playwright & Activist | 2023 |
Fauci | Self | 2021 |
The Reagans | Self - Co-Founder, ACT UP | 2020 |
History 101 | Self | 2020 |
Visible: Out on Television | Self (activist) | 2020 |
Every Act of Life | Himself / Self | 2018 |
The Eighties | Co-founder, Gay Men's Health Crisis / Co-founder, Act Up / Self - Author and Playwright | 2016 |
Larry Kramer in Love and Anger | Himself / Self | 2015 |
Corpus Christi: Playing with Redemption | Self | 2014 |
The 66th Primetime Emmy Awards | Self - Nominee | 2014 |
The Out List | Himself / Self | 2013 |
The 67th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Isabelle Stevenson Award Recipient | 2013 |
Let the Record Show | Self | 2013 |
Koch | Self | 2013 |
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP | Self | 2012 |
Joe Papp in Five Acts | 2012 | |
How to Survive a Plague | Himself / Self - Writer | 2012 |
30 Years from Here | Writer / Himself | 2011 |
Vito | Himself / Self | 2011 |
Making the Boys | Himself / Self - Author & Activist | 2011 |
Sex Positive | Himself / Self | 2009 |
Outrage | Self | 2009 |
Gay Sex in the 70s | Self - Writer, Activist / Himself | 2005 |
When Ocean Meets Sky | Self | 2003 |
Phooey, Rosa | Self | 2002 |
After Stonewall | Self | 1999 |
Theater Talk | Self - Guest | 1996 |
Voices from the Front | Himself | 1992 |
Positive | Himself / Self | 1990 |
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1989 |
Our Time | Self | 1983 |
Producer Filmography
Title | Year |
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Year | Type | Category | Won |
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2014 | Emmy | Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special | Nominated |
1971 | Oscar | Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | Nominated |