Michael Kantor
Production
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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.
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Filmography
Producing
47 credits
American Masters
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
Groucho & Cavett
Bad Girl
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
The Rooster
Broadway: The American Musical
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Itzhak
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
When Patsy Cline Was... Crazy
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Mike Nichols: An American Master
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
Roberta
Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
Starring Dick Van Dyke
Mae West: Dirty Blonde
Words from a Bear
How It Feels to Be Free
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Give Me the Banjo
By Sidney Lumet
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Ailey
Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands
The Disappearance of Miss Scott
Lani B. Supreme: Legacy
Becoming Helen Keller
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
Marcella
Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely
Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire
Directing
5 credits
Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
Broadway: The American Musical
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy
Writing
2 credits
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