American film producer
- Producer
- production manager
Spouse | Angie Utt |
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Children | 2 |
Kenneth Utt (July 13, 1921 – January 19, 1994), was an American film producer and unit production manager. He received the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
Life and career
Utt was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on July 13, 1921. He graduated from Elon College (now Elon University) in Elon, N.C. in 1942. He received a scholarship to Juilliard School where he studied vocals in hopes of becoming an opera singer. Utt served in the Army Air Forces during World War II. He returned home and became a stage and radio actor, appearing in shows like Carousel.
Utt began working in production on stage performances of Peter Pan, the lesser known 1950 Broadway version with music by Leonard Bernstein.[1] He then became a film line producer for films like Midnight Cowboy (1969), The French Connection (1971), The Seven-Ups (1973) and All That Jazz (1979). Utt was a producer and unit production manager on four Jonathan Demme films: Something Wild (1986), Married to the Mob (1988), The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Philadelphia (1993), with Lambs and Philadelphia earning awards at the Oscars. Utt was among the three producers who received Best Picture for Lambs, in which he also made a cameo appearance.
Death
Utt died on January 19, 1994, at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan at the age of 72. The cause was bone cancer.[2] He is survived by his wife Angie, son Tim Utt, and daughter Robin Utt Fajardo.
Filmography
He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.
Film
Year | Film | Credit | Award | Notes |
1968 | The Subject Was Roses | Associate producer | | |
1969 | Midnight Cowboy | Associate producer | | |
1970 | The Boys in the Band | Associate producer | | |
The People Next Door | Associate producer | | |
1971 | The French Connection | Associate producer | | |
1973 | Godspell | Associate producer | | |
The Seven-Ups | Executive producer | | |
1979 | All That Jazz | Associate producer | | |
1981 | Eyewitness | Associate producer | | |
1982 | Still of the Night | Associate producer | | |
1983 | Star 80 | | | |
1985 | Heaven Help Us | Associate producer | | |
1986 | Power | Associate producer | | |
Something Wild | | | |
1988 | Married to the Mob | | | |
1990 | Miami Blues | Co-producer | | |
1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | | Academy Award for Best Picture | |
1993 | Philadelphia | Executive producer | | Final film as a producer |
- Production manager
Year | Film | Role |
1968 | Bye Bye Braverman | Production supervisor |
1978 | The Wiz | Production manager |
1979 | All That Jazz |
1981 | Eyewitness | Unit production manager |
1982 | Still of the Night | Production manager |
1983 | Star 80 |
1985 | Heaven Help Us |
1986 | Power |
Something Wild |
1988 | Married to the Mob | Unit production manager |
1990 | Miami Blues |
1991 | The Silence of the Lambs |
1992 | Gladiator |
1993 | Philadelphia |
- As an actor
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
1944 | Winged Victory | Chorus Member | Uncredited |
1986 | Something Wild | Dad | |
1988 | Married to the Mob | Sourpuss F.B.I. Man | |
1990 | Miami Blues | Krishna Ramba, Head Krishna | |
1991 | The Silence of the Lambs | Dr. Akin | |
Dogfight | Thrift Shop Man | |
1993 | Philadelphia | The Jury | |
1994 | The Ref | Jeremiah Willard | |
2002 | The Truth About Charlie | The Late Monsieur Hyppolite | |
2004 | The Manchurian Candidate | Rosie's Cousin's Mentor | |
- Miscellaneous crew
- Location management
Year | Film | Role |
1972 | Fuzz | Location supervisor: Boston |
- Thanks
Year | Film | Role |
1998 | Beloved | Grateful acknowledgment |
Television
Year | Title | Credit | Notes |
1962−65 | The Defenders | Associate producer | |
1966 | Hawk | Associate producer | |
1967 | N.Y.P.D. | Associate producer | |
Coronet Blue | Associate producer | |
1973 | The Connection | Associate producer | Television film |
Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside | Associate producer | Television pilot |
1975−76 | Movin' On | Associate producer | |
1982 | Baker's Dozen | | |
1986 | Intimate Strangers | | Television film |
- Production manager
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1961−62 | The Defenders | Production manager | |
1972 | Liza with a Z | Production supervisor | Television special |
1974−75 | Movin' On | In charge of production | |
1975 | Strike Force | Executive in charge of production | Television film |
- As an actor
Year | Title | Role |
1954−56 | Studio One | Dave Horn Joseph Blake |
- Miscellaneous crew
Year | Title | Role |
1962 | The Defenders | Assistant to the producer |
The Nurses |
- Thanks
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1997 | Subway Stories | Dedicated to Kenny Utt | Television film |
References
- ^ Peter Pan (1950 version), music by Leonard Bernstein at IBDB
- ^ "Kenneth Utt, 72, Producer of Films Who Also Acted". The New York Times. January 22, 1994. Retrieved April 4, 2011.
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1976–2000 | - Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler (1976)
- Charles H. Joffe (1977)
- Michael Cimino, Michael Deeley, John Peverall and Barry Spikings (1978)
- Stanley R. Jaffe (1979)
- Ronald L. Schwary (1980)
- David Puttnam (1981)
- Richard Attenborough (1982)
- James L. Brooks (1983)
- Saul Zaentz (1984)
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- Arnold Kopelson (1986)
- Jeremy Thomas (1987)
- Mark Johnson (1988)
- Lili Fini Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck (1989)
- Kevin Costner and Jim Wilson (1990)
- Ron Bozman, Edward Saxon and Kenneth Utt (1991)
- Clint Eastwood (1992)
- Branko Lustig, Gerald R. Molen and Steven Spielberg (1993)
- Wendy Finerman, Steve Starkey and Steve Tisch (1994)
- Bruce Davey, Mel Gibson and Alan Ladd Jr. (1995)
- Saul Zaentz (1996)
- James Cameron and Jon Landau (1997)
- Donna Gigliotti, Marc Norman, David Parfitt, Harvey Weinstein and Edward Zwick (1998)
- Bruce Cohen and Dan Jinks (1999)
- David Franzoni, Branko Lustig and Douglas Wick (2000)
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- Christian Colson (2008)
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- Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin (2010)
- Thomas Langmann (2011)
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- Dede Gardner, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Brad Pitt (2013)
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher and James W. Skotchdopole (2014)
- Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin and Michael Sugar (2015)
- Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Adele Romanski (2016)
- J. Miles Dale and Guillermo del Toro (2017)
- Jim Burke, Brian Currie, Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga and Charles B. Wessler (2018)
- Bong Joon-ho and Kwak Sin-ae (2019)
- Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears and Chloé Zhao (2020)
- Fabrice Gianfermi, Philippe Rousselet, Patrick Wachsberger (2021)
- Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert and Jonathan Wang (2022)
- Emma Thomas, Charles Roven, and Christopher Nolan (2023)
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