Michael Kantor
- Known for
- Production
Biography
Michael Kantor is a writer, director, and producer whose work includes "Quincy Jones: In the Pocket" for American Masters, Cornerstone for HBO, and The West with Ken Burns. Prior to his work in television, Kantor was a freelance theater director and writer, published in Newsday, American Theater, and Interview. He is president of Ghost Light Films and Almo Inc., companies dedicated to bringing the arts to television. Since 2001, Michael Kantor has produced 21 hours of television for national broadcast. In addition to winning the Peabody Award and the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Nonfiction Series, Mr. Kantor’s productions have been recognized with seven Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and one Writers Guild of America Award nomination.
Known For
Filmography
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
Movie · Executive Producer
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
Movie · Executive Producer
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
Movie · Executive Producer
Wilder
Movie · Executive Producer
The Good Life
Movie · Producer
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Movie · Executive Producer
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
Movie · Executive Producer
The Disappearance of Miss Scott
Movie · Executive Producer
Marcella
Movie · Executive Producer
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
Movie · Executive Producer
Starring Dick Van Dyke
Movie · Executive Producer
Lani B. Supreme: Legacy
Movie · Executive Producer
Cindy Tran: From Here to Here
Movie · Executive Producer
The Rooster
Movie · Executive Producer
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
Movie · Executive Producer
Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire
Movie · Executive Producer
Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely
Movie · Executive Producer
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Movie · Executive Producer
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
Movie · Executive Producer
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
Movie · Executive Producer
Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands
Movie · Executive Producer
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
Movie · Executive Producer
Roberta
Movie · Executive Producer
Groucho & Cavett
Movie · Executive Producer
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
Movie · Executive Producer
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Movie · Executive Producer
Becoming Helen Keller
Movie · Executive Producer
How It Feels to Be Free
Movie · Executive Producer
Ailey
Movie · Executive Producer
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Movie · Executive Producer
Mae West: Dirty Blonde
Movie · Executive Producer
Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is
Movie · Executive Producer
Words from a Bear
Movie · Executive Producer
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Movie · Executive Producer
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
Movie · Executive Producer
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Movie · Executive Producer
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Movie · Executive Producer
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Movie · Executive Producer
When Patsy Cline Was... Crazy
Movie · Executive Producer
Itzhak
Movie · Executive Producer
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Movie · Executive Producer
Bad Girl
Movie · Executive Producer
Mike Nichols: An American Master
Movie · Executive Producer
By Sidney Lumet
Movie · Executive Producer
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Movie · Executive Producer
Give Me the Banjo
Movie · Executive Producer
Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America
TV · Producer · 6 eps
Broadway: The American Musical
TV · Producer · 6 eps
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
Movie · Producer
American Masters
TV · Executive Producer · 315 eps