Stanley R. Jaffe, who won an Oscar as producer of “Kramer vs. Kramer” in 1980 and served in top positions at several studios, died Monday in Rancho Mirage. He was 84. Jaffe, the son of ...

Stanley R. Jaffe, the veteran producer and studio executive who won the Best Picture Oscar for “Kramer vs. Kramer,” has died at his Rancho Mirage home at the age of 84, according to his ...

Jaffe’s road to the podium at the Academy Awards began when Richard Fischoff, a young film executive he had hired just that week, got a hold of the manuscript for Avery Corman’s Kramer vs.