Stanley R. Jaffe Dies: ‘Kramer Vs. Kramer’ Oscar Winner Who Also Produced ‘Fatal Attraction’ & More Was 84
deadline.comStanley R. Jaffe, who won a Best Picture Oscar for producing Kramer vs. Kramer and was nominated for Fatal Attraction during a career that also including producing such films as The Bad News Bears, Taps, Black Rain and Goodbye, Columbus, died today.
He was 84. CAA, which repped Jaffe, confirmed his death to Deadline. Jaffe was a decade into his career when he produced Kramer vs.
Kramer, the riveting 1979 divorce drama starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, who also won lead acting Oscars — Streep’s first of three.
He followed that by producing Taps, also for Paramount, where Jaffe at had become the youngest studio head ever in 1969. The latter film about a mutiny at a soon-to-close military academy, starred Timothy Hutton launched the careers of such future stars as Tom Cruise, Sean Penn and Giancarlo Epsosito.
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