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Michael Kantor


Michael Kantor

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.



Credits

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World (2026)
Executive Producer
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (2026)
Executive Producer
Starring Dick Van Dyke (2025)
Executive Producer
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny (2025)
Executive Producer
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (2025)
Executive Producer
Marcella (2025)
Executive Producer
The Disappearance of Miss Scott (2025)
Executive Producer
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2025)
Executive Producer
Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire (2024)
Executive Producer
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames (2024)
Executive Producer
The Rooster (2024)
Executive Producer
Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely (2023)
Executive Producer
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology (2023)
Executive Producer
Sydney G. James: How We See Us (2023)
Executive Producer
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (2023)
Executive Producer
Groucho & Cavett (2022)
Executive Producer
Roberta (2022)
Executive Producer
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter (2022)
Executive Producer
Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands (2022)
Executive Producer
Becoming Helen Keller (2021)
Executive Producer
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings (2021)
Executive Producer
Ailey (2021)
Executive Producer
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It (2021)
Executive Producer
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (2021)
Executive Producer
How It Feels to Be Free (2021)
Executive Producer
Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is (2020)
Executive Producer
Mae West: Dirty Blonde (2020)
Executive Producer
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage (2019)
Executive Producer
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
Executive Producer
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)
Executive Producer
Words from a Bear (2019)
Executive Producer
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2018)
Executive Producer
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart (2017)
Executive Producer
Itzhak (2017)
Executive Producer
When Patsy Cline Was... Crazy (2017)
Executive Producer
Mike Nichols: An American Master (2016)
Executive Producer
Bad Girl (2016)
Executive Producer
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016)
Executive Producer
Janis: Little Girl Blue (2015)
Executive Producer
By Sidney Lumet (2015)
Executive Producer
Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy (2013)
Director
Give Me the Banjo (2011)
Executive Producer
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket (2001)
Director
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket (2001)
Writer
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket (2001)
Producer