Peter Kunhardt
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Peter W. Kunhardt is a documentary film-maker who produces shows for HBO, PBS, and other U.S. television networks. He started Kunhardt Productions, Inc. which produced "JFK: In His Own Words," HBO "Bobby: In His Owns Words" HBO "Lincoln" ABC, "P.T. Barnum" Discovery "Justice Files" Discovery and many more. As the company expanded, Dyllan McGee became a partner. It is now KunhardtMcGee Productions located in Pleasantville, New York in Westchester County.
Since becoming "Kunhardt McGee Productions", Kunhardt has produced the recent Emmy-award winning documentary "Teddy: In His Own Words" HBO, "African American Lives I & II" PBS, "Faces of America"PBS hosted by Harvard Professor, Henry "Skip" Louis Gates, Jr. Last year in 2009, Kunhardt produced "This Emotional Life" WGBH which explores aspects of human emotions such as depression and anxiety.
Mr. Kunhardt founded Kunhardt Productions with his father, Philip Kunhardt, Jr., and his brother, Philip Kunhardt, III, in 1987. Before founding Kunhardt Productions, Mr. Kunhardt worked for 10 years at ABC News. He is the winner of three national television Emmy Awards, one of which was for "JFK: In His Own Words" (1988). He is co-author of the book Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography (1992) and served as producer and director of the ABC mini-series "Lincoln". He has also co-authored "Looking for Lincoln" (2009) which is also a PBS documentary and "Lincoln Life Size" (2009) He co-produced a ten-hour series for PBS, The American President (1999). In 2003 he served as an executive producer for In Memoriam, a one hour co-production with HBO and Brad Grey Television recounting how Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and his staff coped with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Mr. Kunhardt lives in Chappaqua, New York with his wife, Suzy, and their four children Peter, Abby, Teddy and George. He is the grandson of famed children's book author Dorothy Kunhardt, best-known for her 1940 creation Pat the Bunny.
[edit] See also
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt - Grandmother and creator of Pat the Bunny
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