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 br…
Known For
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Executive Producer
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Executive Producer
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Executive Producer
Bad Girl
Executive Producer
American Masters
Executive Producer
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Executive Producer
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Executive Producer
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
Director
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Filmography
Crew (50)
Movies (43)
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World
2026Executive Producer
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
2026Executive Producer
The Disappearance of Miss Scott
2025Executive Producer
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny
2025Executive Producer
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
2025Executive Producer
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
2025Executive Producer
Marcella
2025Executive Producer
Starring Dick Van Dyke
2025Executive Producer
The Rooster
2024Executive Producer
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames
2024Executive Producer
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023Executive Producer
Sydney G. James: How We See Us
2023Executive Producer
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology
2023Executive Producer
Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely
2023Executive Producer
Groucho & Cavett
2022Executive Producer
Roberta
2022Executive Producer
Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands
2022Executive Producer
Jerry Brown: The Disrupter
2022Executive Producer
Ailey
2021Executive Producer
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
2021Executive Producer
A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings
2021Executive Producer
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
2021Executive Producer
How It Feels to Be Free
2021Executive Producer
Becoming Helen Keller
2021Executive Producer
Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is
2020Executive Producer
Mae West: Dirty Blonde
2020Executive Producer
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019Executive Producer
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019Executive Producer
Words from a Bear
2019Executive Producer
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage
2019Executive Producer
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
2018Executive Producer
Itzhak
2017Executive Producer
When Patsy Cline Was... Crazy
2017Executive Producer
Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes / Feeling Heart
2017Executive Producer
Bad Girl
2016Executive Producer
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You
2016Executive Producer
Janis: Little Girl Blue
2015Executive Producer
By Sidney Lumet
2015Executive Producer
Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy
2013Director
Give Me the Banjo
2011Executive Producer
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
2001Director
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
2001Producer
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket
2001Writer
Television (7)
Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle
2013Director
Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America
2009Director
Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America
2009Producer
Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America
2009Writer
Broadway: The American Musical
2004Director
Broadway: The American Musical
2004Producer
American Masters
1986Executive Producer
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