Duncan Cramer

{{Short description|American cinematic art director}}

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| name = Duncan Cramer

| birth_name = William Duncan Cramer

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| birth_date = June 22, 1901

| birth_place = Logansport, Indiana, United States

| death_date = February 14, 1980

| death_place = Orange County, California, United States

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| occupation = Art Director

| yearsactive = 1929 - 1971 (film & TV)

| spouse = Helen A. Myron

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Duncan Cramer (1901–1980) was an American motion picture art director active from 1929 to 1971. He headed the Art Department of 20th Century Fox Studios, and is credited for the sets of more than a hundred films and television series.{{cite book |title=MGM - Hollywood's Greatest Backlot |first1=Steven |last1=Bingen |first2=Stephen X |last2=Sylvester |first3=Michael |last3=Troyan |date=2011 |publisher=Santa Monica Press |isbn=9781595808936}}{{cite book |last=Hanke |first=Ken |title=Charlie Chan at the Movies: History, Filmography, and Criticism |page=64 |publisher=McFarland |date=2004 |isbn=9780786419210 |oclc=55128815 }} Reprinting of the 1989 edition.

Cramer and David S. Hall were the art directors for the 1935 film Dante's Inferno. In 2014, the film was shown and discussed in a videorecorded program of the Art Directors Guild.{{cite web |title=2014 Film Society Dante's Inferno- Duncan Cramer, David S. Hall, Designers |url=https://vimeo.com/channels/808942/105825682 |publisher=Art Directors Guild |date=2014}} Cramer was nominated twice for an Emmy Award for the television program Four Star Playhouse.{{cite web |title=Duncan Cramer: Awards and Nominations |url=https://www.emmys.com/bios/duncan-cramer |publisher=Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |accessdate=2020-07-23 }} Cramer's papers are in the collection of the Margaret Herrick Library.{{cite web |title=Duncan Cramer papers |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8gx4dtd/entire_text/ |accessdate=2020-07-23 |publisher=Online Archive of California}}