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.
Filmography
The Good Life 2026
Producer
Wilder 2026
Executive Producer
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez 2026
Executive Producer
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World 2026
Executive Producer
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause 2026
Executive Producer
Starring Dick Van Dyke 2025
Executive Producer
Cindy Tran: From Here to Here 2025
Executive Producer
Lani B. Supreme: Legacy 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
Sydney G. James: How We See Us 2023
Executive Producer
Jonathan Thunder: Good Mythology 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
Give Me the Banjo 2011
Executive Producer
Quincy Jones: In the Pocket 2001
Producer, Director, Writer
Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy 2013
Director
Credits from TMDB.