Biography
Kenneth Utt was an American film producer and unit production manager. Born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he graduated from Elon College and studied voice at the Juilliard School. He began his career in entertainment as a Broadway performer and stage manager, appearing in productions including Carousel, and later worked as an associate producer on television series such as The Defenders.
Utt moved into feature films in the late 1960s, serving as associate producer or production manager on Midnight Cowboy (1969), The French Connection (1971) and All That Jazz (1979). He collaborated extensively with director Jonathan Demme as producer and unit production manager on Something Wild (1986), Married to the Mob (1988), The Silence of the Lambs (1991) and Philadelphia (1993). Utt shared the Academy Award for Best Picture for The Silence of the Lambs.
