Production
Michael Kantor
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
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Bad Girl
American Masters
The Rooster
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
By Sidney Lumet
Itzhak
Mike Nichols: An American Master
Mae West: Dirty Blonde
Ailey
Give Me the Banjo
Movie credits · 47
Wilder
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
Starring Dick Van Dyke
Lani B. Supreme: Legacy
Cindy Tran: From Here to Here
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Marcella
Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse
The Disappearance of Miss Scott
Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
The Rooster
Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Groucho & Cavett
Roberta
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands
Becoming Helen Keller
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Ailey
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
How It Feels to Be Free
Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is
Mae West: Dirty Blonde
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Words from a Bear
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Itzhak
When Patsy Cline Was... Crazy
Mike Nichols: An American Master
TV credits · 4
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