Career
He started Kunhardt Productions, Incorporated. which produced Home Box Office"s "John F Kennedy: In His Own Words," Home Box Office"s "Bobby: In His Owns Words," American Broadcasting Company"s "Lincoln", Discovery"s "P.T. Barnum" Discovery"s "Justice Files" and many more. Since becoming "Kunhardt Films", Kunhardt has produced Nixon By Nixon: In His Own Words for Home Box Office, Makers: Women Who Make America Seasons 1 & 2 for America Online and Public Broadcasting Service, Emmy winning The African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross, the Emmy Nominated Home Box Office documentary Gloria: In Her Own Words, Public Broadcasting Service"s 10 part series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Junior Seasons 1 & 2, the Emmy-award winning Home Box Office documentary "Teddy: In His Own Words", Public Broadcasting Service"s "African American Lives I & II", and Public Broadcasting Service"s "Faces of America". In 2009, Kunhardt produced "This Emotional Life" for WGBH which explores aspects of human emotions such as depression and anxiety.
Before founding Kunhardt Productions, Mr.
Kunhardt worked for 10 years at American Broadcasting Company News. He is co-author of the book Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography (1992) and served as producer and director of the American Broadcasting Company mini-series "Lincoln".
He has also co-authored "Looking for Lincoln" (2009) which is also a Public Broadcasting Service documentary and "Lincoln Life Size" (2009) He co-produced a ten-hour series for Public Broadcasting Service, The American President (1999). In 2003 he served as an executive producer for In Memoriam, a one-hour co-production with Home Box Office and Brad Grey Television recounting how Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and his staff coped with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
He has 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.
