Biographies: Kenneth Utt - Actor

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An American film producer and actor, born on July 13, 1921, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. In 1942, he graduated from Elon College (now Elon University) in Elon, North Carolina. Kenneth Utt received a scholarship to Juilliard School, where he studied vocals, hoping to become an opera singer. During WWII, Utt served in the Army Air Force. After he returned home, he became a theater and radio actor. He started working in the production of theatrical performances of Peter Pan, the less famous 1950 Broadway version with music by Leonard Bernstein, after which he became a film line producer for such films as Midnight Cowboy (1969), The French Connection (1971), and All That Jazz (1979). Among the awards he won was the Academy Award for Best Picture for The Silence of the Lambs (1991). Kenneth Utt died on January 19, 1994, in New York, USA.

• 31 July 2022
• Dalia Saad