Casey Kramer dead at 67: Daughter of feted filmmaker Stanley Kramer died of natural causes at Chicago home

Casey Kramer, an actress and the daughter of late director Stanley Kramer, died Sunday at her Chicago home.

Kramer’s sister Kat Kramer announced her sibling’s passing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. 

Casey had worked as an actress over the course of five decades, with notable film projects including Behind the Candelabra, Darkness in Tenement and Mississippi Requiem.

Casey also appeared on TV shows such as Dexter, Baskets, Falcon Crest, General Hospital, The Young and the Restless, Transparent and Criminal Minds.

She was a member of The Actors Studio for years, and had been an actress and director on the Los Angeles theater circuit.

Casey was the daughter of late director Stanley Kramer, pictured on set in 1970 

Her first project was in the 1979 Dick Van Dyke movie The Runner Stumbles, which her late father directed.

Kramer was awarded with the 2015 Winner Claw Award from the Terror Film Festival for her work in Little Old Cat Lady from Rancho Cucamonga.

She had been nominated for her acting performances at the Madrid International Film Festival for Best Lead Actress in a Short Film for Owen.

Casey was days away from celebrating her 68th birthday, as she was born December 28, 1955 in Los Angeles to Stanley Kramer and her late mother, writer and movie exec Anne Pearce.

Kramer also acted in stage plays, such as a production of My Sister In This House  with Deanne Bray at Deaf West Theatre in Los Angeles, Variety reported. 

Stanley and Pearce, who both passed away in 2001, were wed for 13 years, from 1950-1963.

Stanley Kramer was best known for directing motion pictures including Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Judgment at Nuremberg, Ship of Fools, The Defiant Ones and It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

He had also been a producer on films such as Death of a Salesman, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Caine Mutiny and High Noon.

Kramer was pictured playing the role of Martha in the 2020 movie Darkness in Tenement

Casey had worked as an actress over the course of five decades 

Kramer was pictured in the 2016 short film Owen 

Kramer was pictured in the 2016 film Family Unit

The late Stanley Kramer directed the iconic 1967 movie Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Pictured with the film’s late star Sidney Poitier, in LA in June of 1998 

He had been nominated for nine Academy Awards for his directing and producing efforts in the 1960s. 

In 1962, he was honored with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award.

Casey is survived by her sisters Kat Kramer and Jennifer Kramer, and stepmother Karen Sharpe-Kramer. She was preceded in death by brother Lawrence Kramer, who passed away in 2010.