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American film producer
Kenneth Utt
Born (1921-07-13 ) July 13, 1921Died January 19, 1994(1994-01-19) (aged 72) Alma mater
Elon University Occupations Producer production manager Spouse Angie Utt 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
Production manager
As an actor
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
As an actor
Year
Title
Role
1954−56
Studio One
Dave Horn Joseph Blake
Miscellaneous crew
Thanks
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1997
Subway Stories
Dedicated to Kenny Utt
Television film
References
External links
1951–1975 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)
Sydney Pollack (1985)
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)
2001–present
Brian Grazer and
Ron Howard (2001)
Martin Richards (2002)
Peter Jackson ,
Barrie M. Osborne and
Fran Walsh (2003)
Clint Eastwood ,
Tom Rosenberg and
Albert S. Ruddy (2004)
Paul Haggis and
Cathy Schulman (2005)
Graham King (2006)
Ethan Coen, Joel Coen and
Scott Rudin (2007)
Christian Colson (2008)
Kathryn Bigelow ,
Mark Boal ,
Nicolas Chartier and
Greg Shapiro (2009)
Iain Canning ,
Emile Sherman and
Gareth Unwin (2010)
Thomas Langmann (2011)
Ben Affleck ,
George Clooney and
Grant Heslov (2012)
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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