Michael Kantor
Known for: Production
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
Showing 24 of 46 titles
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
Executive Producer
Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands
Executive Producer
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
Executive Producer
Give Me the Banjo
Executive Producer
Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy
Director
When Patsy Cline Was... Crazy
Executive Producer
Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely
Executive Producer
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
Executive Producer
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
Executive Producer
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Executive Producer
Becoming Helen Keller
Executive Producer
By Sidney Lumet
Executive Producer
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
Producer
Roberta
Executive Producer
Words from a Bear
Executive Producer
Groucho & Cavett
Executive Producer
Mae West: Dirty Blonde
Executive Producer
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Executive Producer
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
Executive Producer
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
Executive Producer
The Rooster
Executive Producer
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
Executive Producer
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Executive Producer
Itzhak
Executive Producer