Grant Cramer
Grant Cramer | |
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Born |
Los Angeles, California, U.S. | November 10, 1961
Occupation | Film, television actor |
Years active | 1980-present |
Spouse(s) | Olga Cramer (2010-present) |
Grant Cramer (born November 10, 1961) is an American actor and producer who has starred in films and on television. He is the son of actress Terry Moore and Stuart Warren Cramer III.
Grant's first feature film role was in 1980,[1] when he starred in the horror film New Year's Evil.[2] It wasn't until 1984, his big role came in the 1984 cult comedy film Hardbodies in which he played Scotty Palmer. His other big film was the cult classic 1988 Killer Klowns from Outer Space. He appeared in the 2001 film Mach 2. His most recent appearance was in the 2009 movie Follow the Prophet.
Grant has starred on television shows, his first TV role was in the 1982 made-for-television movie Desperate Lives as a teen drug user. He starred in the hit CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless as the psychotic stalker Shawn Garrett from 1985-1986. He later returned to the soap in 1996 to play Adam Hunter, a love interest for Ashley Abbott.[3]
Grant has made guest appearances on television shows like The Facts of Life, Rags to Riches, and Murder, She Wrote.
In recent years, Grant has turned his attention to writing, producing and directing. A short film he wrote, produced and directed, "Say Goodnight, Michael", won numerous awards including the Grand Jury Award at the New York Independent Film and Video festival.
In 2008, he created and executive produced the VH1 series, "Old Skool with Terry and Gita", which aired in over 40 countries internationally.
In 2011 through 2013, Grant was the executive vice president of Envision Entertainment where he was their chief creative executive on 10 movies during that span.
Currently, he is the President of Landafar Entertainment, an independent film finance and production company. He recently executive produced Lone Survivor, starring Mark Wahlberg, And So It Goes, starring Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton and November Man, starring Pierce Brosnan and Olga Kurylenko.
He recently produced How to Make Love Like an Englishman starring Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek and Jessica Alba, released Aug. 2015.
Grant has a number of films currently in development that he is either producing or executive producing including One Night Stan, to be directed by Bobby Farrelly, Big Church Movie, Starring Anthony Anderson and Nick Cannon and Natascha, starring Richard Gere.
El Vuelo Del Turpial (The Flight of the Turpial), an epic family adventure he is producing centered on Venezuelan Pemon Indian mythology, is currently in pre-production.
Grant recently celebrated the birth of his first son, Preston Cody Sasha Cramer, born on May 22, 2015.
Filmography
- New Year's Evil (1980)
- Hardbodies (1984)
- Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
- Father's Day (1988)
- An Inconvenient Woman (1991)
- Hangfire (1991)
- Hail Caeser (1994)
- Screening (1998)
- Mach 2 (2001)
- Raptor (2001)
- The Still Life (2006)
- The Final Song (2009)
- Follow the Prophet (2009)
- The Final Song (2010)
- Margarine Wars (2012)
- Beyond (2012)
- Return of the Killer Klowns from Outer Space in 3D (Release date uncertain)
as producer:
- Freelancers (2012) ... Production Executive
- Fire with Fire ... Production Executive
- End of Watch (2012) ... Production Executive
- Empire State ... Production Executive
- The Frozen Ground (2013) ... Production Executive
- Escape Plan (2013) ... Production Executive
- 2 Guns (2013) ... Production Executive
- Lone Survivor (2013) ... Executive Producer
- And So It Goes (2014) ... Executive Producer
- The November Man (2014) ... Executive Producer
- How to Make Love Like an Englishman (2014) ... Producer, Second Unit Coordinator
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