Retirement and Death
In the 1980s Kramer retired to Bellevue, Washington, and wrote a column on movies for the Seattle Times from 1980-1996. During this time, he hosted his own weekly movie show on then-independent station KCPQ-TV.
In 1997 Kramer published his autobiography, A Mad Mad Mad Mad World: A Life in Hollywood.
He died on February 19, 2001, in Los Angeles, aged 87, after contracting pneumonia. He was married three times and divorced twice. He was survived by his third wife, Karen; and four children, two from a previous marriage.
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