Tony Palmer
Directing
Born 1941-08-29
London
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Tony Palmer is a British film director and author. His work includes over 100 films, ranging from early works with The Beatles, Cream, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa (200 Motels), to his classical portraits which include profiles of Maria Callas, Margot Fonteyn, John Osborne, Igor Stravinsky, Richard Wagner, Yehudi Menuhin, Carl Orff, Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams. He is also a stage director of theatre and opera.
Among over 40 international prizes for his work are 12 Gold Medals from the New York Film Festival as well as numerous BAFTAs and Emmy Awards. Palmer has won the Prix Italia twice,for A Time There Was in 1980 and At the Haunted End of the Day in 1981. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and an honorary citizen of both New Orleans and Athens.
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Filmography
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Directing
48 credits
England, My England
Wagner
Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
200 Motels
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
The Children
The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Puccini
Margot
Testimony
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
The World of Miss World
Ginger Baker: In Africa
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
The Space Movie
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
Colosseum and Juicy Lucy
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Mighty Good: The Beatles
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
Callas: A Documentary
The World of Liberace
O, Fortuna!
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
Benjamin Britten and His Festival
All My Loving
At the Haunted End of the Day
Death in Venice
The Wigan Casino
Cream: Farewell Concert
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
Rope Ladder to the Moon
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74
Vangelis: The Interviews
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
The Wagner Family
Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
The Beatles And World War II
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…
Other credits
13 credits
Performance.
200 Motels
Alice in Wonderland
Margot
Testimony
The World of Miss World
Ginger Baker: In Africa
The Piano Room
The World of Liberace
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
Benjamin Britten and His Festival
Death in Venice
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Acting
8 credits
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
All We Got Was Love
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
The Making of 200 Motels
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
Writing
8 credits
200 Motels
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
Code Name Vengeance
Testimony
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
The Space Movie
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
The Beatles And World War II
Producing
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