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Michael Ashton Kuhn (born 1949) is a Kenyan-bornEnglish film producer based primarily in England.
Kuhn was born in 1949 inNairobi, Kenya. At age 13, he traveled to England to study atDover College and then read law atClare College, Cambridge. He joinedPolyGram in 1975, and in 1991 he set up the subsidiaryPolyGram Filmed Entertainment (PFE). In 1999, when PolyGram merged withUniversal Music Group, he went independent and formed the production companyQwerty Films. He published his memoir100 Films and a Funeral in 2001. This was later turned into a documentary of the same name, charting the rise and fall of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. In 2002 he was appointed Chair of theNational Film and Television School.[1]
Kuhn was appointedCommander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the2021 New Year Honours for services to the film industry.[2]
Kuhn married his wife Caroline in 1995 and has two sons. One, named George, the other Jacob.[citation needed]
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