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Arthur Kent Biography

Birth Name:Arthur Kent

Birth Place:Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Profession Producer, Writer, Cinematographer

Fast Facts

  • Earned a bachelor's degree from Carleton University
  • Widely known for his ongoing legal battles with NBC during the early '90s and also the producers of "Charlie Wilson's War"
  • Launched Sky Reporter in 2007, a news outlet responsible for housing new and archived short films and documentaries
  • Worked as an independent journalist throughout much of the 1980s before joining NBC in 1989
  • After leaving NBC in 1992, he would return to his native Canada to host a variety of programs, while also working to establish his own U․K․-based production company, Fast Forward Films
  • Once ran for public office of the Calgary-Currie district, but lost to the incumbent in 2007