Duncan Kenworthy

Duncan H. Kenworthy is a British television and film producer. He is also the co-founder of DNA (Duncan ‘N’ Andrew) Films- a production company. He is presently a producer at Toledo Productions. Duncan was born and raised in Yorkshire. He has studied at a constituent college of the University of Cambridge- Christ’s College, Cambridge in the United Kingdom and got a first class degree. After that, he was a Thouron Scholar, got scholarship under Thouron Award, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He made a start in his career from New York Click to look into! >> Read More... by working for Children’s Television Workshop on “ Sesame Street Sesame Street is a preschool educational TV show t >> Read More... .” After this, he produced the same program in Arabic version in Kuwait called Iftah Ya Simsim in 1997. His career in Sesame Street led to a ten-year collaboration of Duncan with Jim Henson, a visionary fantasist, on several projects. In the meantime, Kenworthy was working on other projects. He was the associate producer of the groundbreaking film The Dark Crystal by Jim Hansen and Frank Oz Frank Oz also know as Frank Richard Oznowicz is an >> Read More... in 1982. He was the producer and co- creator of the 1983 Television series Fraggle Rock Fraggle Rock is a puppet television series created >> Read More... , which was air on HBO. Fraggle Rock was a live puppet program. Next, he was the producer of The Storyteller.

The Storyteller was the live puppet television series which retold the folk tales. It was developed by Anthony Minghella. The StoryTeller: Greek Myths' creation, the second installment, was also credited to Anthony. Duncan produced this TV show. The Storyteller won many BAFTA Awards. After that, he co-produced The Jim Henson Hour television show in 1989 that aired on NBC. Duncan then produced television movies like ‘Monster Maker’ in 1989, ‘Living with Dinosaurs’ in 1989, and was the executive producer of ‘The Final Curtain’ with Andrew Macdonald in 2003. The Monster Maker was directed by David S. Cass Sr., Living with Dinosaurs by Paul Weiland Paul Weiland is an English television and motion p >> Read More... and The Final Curtain by Patrick Harkins. Duncan established Toledo Productions, his production company. Soon, he produced Lawn Dogs by John Duigan. It starred Sam Rockwell Born on November 5, 1968, in Daly City, California >> Read More... opposite Mischa Barton Mischa Anne Barton is an English-American film, fa >> Read More... (who was then ten years old). He then worked on Gulliver’s Travels miniseries on NBC in 1996 with Charles Sturridge.

The cast included Ted Danson Bi-weekly American magazine TV Guide has ranked Am >> Read More... , Omar Sharif Omar Sharif was an actor who had left an indelible >> Read More... , and Peter O’ Toole. For Gulliver’s Travels, Kenworthy received an Emmy Award for the Outstanding miniseries’ producer. He also produced Four Weddings and a Funeral by Mike Newell in 1994. The movie was a huge hit and won 20+ awards and got nominated in many. His other works include Notting Hill in 1999, The Parole Officer in 2001, Love Actually in 2003, Strictly Sinatra in 2001, and Heartlands in 2002. Notting Hill was a romantic drama by Roger Michell Starring Hugh Grant Hugh Grant aka Hugh John Mungo Grant, who is an En >> Read More... and Julia Roberts She’s one of the Hollywood’s heavyweight actresses >> Read More... . Notting Hill won many awards including BAFTA Award, Empire Award, Golden Screen, Germany Award, Huabiao Film Award, and some more. The Parole Officer was an action adventure film by John Duigan, which revolved around a failed parole officer. Love Actually is a romantic comedy drama by Richard Curtis Richard Curtis, born Richard Whalley Anthony Curti >> Read More... about the eight different couples and how they come around love in the backdrop of Christmas. Strictly Sinatra by Peter Capaldi was an Indie comedy-drama film about a Scottish singer with Italian roots. Heartlands by Daniel O’ Donnell was a comedy drama starring Michael Sheen Michael Christopher Sheen, is an actor from Wales, >> Read More... and Celia Imrie Celia Diana Savile Imrie is an actress from Englan >> Read More... . Duncan was also the Vice President from 1988 to 1995 of Jim Henson’s company. He was an Officer of the O.B.E (Order of the British Empire) in 1999 for services to film. He is also the Vice-President of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). Kenworthy also started Toledo scholarship for British ethnic minority students at the National Film and Television School.