---
name: "Michael Kuhn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-kuhn"
fi1m_id: "michael-kuhn"
imdb_id: "nm0474138"
tmdb_id: 6713
wikidata_id: "Q6012824"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1949"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-02T01:14:02.259111+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Michael Kuhn

## Identity

Michael Kuhn

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-kuhn
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-kuhn
- **IMDb ID:** nm0474138
- **TMDB ID:** 6713
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6012824
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kuhn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6012824, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0474138/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6713

Producer. Born 1 January 1949 in Nairobi, Kenya.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1949, Nairobi, Kenya
- **Active:** 1990–2016
- **Average Fi1m score:** 78, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 84 (2), 2000s 66 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 78 to 73 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Romance 2, Comedy 1, Crime 1, Fantasy 1, History 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $81m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kuhn, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6012824, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0474138/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6713

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*The Duchess*](https://film.one/film/the-duchess.md) (66)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Michael Kuhn is a Kenyan-born English film producer. He studied at Dover College and read law at Clare College, Cambridge, before joining PolyGram in 1975. In 1991 he established PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and, after its merger with Universal in 1999, founded the independent production company Qwerty Films.

Kuhn's credits include executive producer on *Wild at Heart* (1990), *Red Rock West* (1993), *Being John Malkovich* (1999), *I ♥ Huckabees* (2004) and *Severance* (2006), and producer on *The Duchess* (2008), *Suite Française* (2015), *Florence Foster Jenkins* (2016) and *Golda* (2023). He was appointed Chair of the National Film and Television School in 2002 and received a CBE in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to the film industry. He published the memoir *100 Films and a Funeral* in 2001.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Duchess* (2008), Fi1m 66, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-duchess.md)
- *Being John Malkovich* (1999), Fi1m 89, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/being-john-malkovich.md)
- *Wild at Heart* (1990), Fi1m 78, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/wild-at-heart.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Golda* (2023), Producer
- *Saint Maud* (2020), Thanks — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/saint-maud.md)
- *Florence Foster Jenkins* (2016), Producer
- *Suite Française* (2015), Producer
- *The Last Days on Mars* (2013), Producer
- *The Duchess* (2008), Producer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-duchess.md)
- *AND1 Mixtape X: The United Streets of America* (2008), Director
- *Severance* (2006), Executive Producer
- *Alien Autopsy* (2006), Executive Producer
- *I ♥ Huckabees* (2004), Executive Producer
- *Kinsey* (2004), Executive Producer
- *Stage Beauty* (2004), Executive Producer
- *Wondrous Oblivion* (2004), Executive Producer
- *The Order* (2003), Executive Producer
- *AND1 Ball Access : The Mixtape Tour* (2002), Director
- *Being John Malkovich* (1999), Executive Producer — Fi1m 89, [page](https://film.one/film/being-john-malkovich.md)
- *Julien Donkey-Boy* (1999), Production Artist
- *Red Rock West* (1993), Executive Producer
- *Ruby* (1992), Executive Producer
- *Wild at Heart* (1990), Executive Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/wild-at-heart.md)
- *Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?* (1990), Executive Producer
- *Fear, Anxiety and Depression* (1989), Producer
- *Kill Me Again* (1989), Executive Producer
- *The Sisters Of Mercy - Wake: In Concert At The Royal Albert Hall* (1985), Executive Producer
- *Big Country – Live At Barrowland 1983 (The Homecoming)* (1984), Producer
- *The House on Sorority Row* (1982), as Peter
- *The Present Times*, as Caesar Gromit

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film 2009: European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film (nominated), for *The Duchess*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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