Biography
Kenneth Utt (13 July 1921 – 19 January 1994) was an American film producer and unit production manager. Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he began his career in the theatre as an actor on Broadway and in television, later working as a stage manager before moving into film production in the late 1960s.
He served as associate producer or production manager on films including Midnight Cowboy (1969), The French Connection (1971) and All That Jazz (1979). Utt frequently collaborated with director Jonathan Demme, acting as producer or unit production manager on Something Wild (1986), Married to the Mob (1988), The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Philadelphia (1993). He was one of the producers who received the Academy Award for Best Picture for The Silence of the Lambs and appeared in a cameo role in the film.
Utt died of bone cancer in New York City at the age of 72.
