Tony Palmer
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 29, 1941 (age 85)
- Birthplace
- London
Biography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Palmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Filmography
Mozart in Japan
TV · Director · 1 ep
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
Movie · Director
The Beatles And World War II
Movie · Director
Vangelis: The Interviews
Movie · Director
Britten: Nocturne
Movie · Director
Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka
Movie · Director
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Movie · Director
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
Movie · Director
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Movie · Director
Rope Ladder to the Moon
Movie · Director
The Wagner Family
Movie · Director
O, Fortuna!
Movie · Director
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Movie · Director
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
Movie · Director
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
Movie · Director
Margot
Movie · Director
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
Movie · Director
Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
Movie · Director
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
Movie · Director
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Movie · Director
The Kindness of Strangers
Movie · Director
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
Movie · Director
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
Movie · Director
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
Movie · Director
The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
Movie · Director
England, My England
Movie · Director
Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Movie · Director
Menuhin, A Family Portrait
Movie · Director
Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
Movie · Director
The Children
Movie · Director
Testimony
Movie · Director
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Movie · Director
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
Movie · Director
Puccini
Movie · Director
Wagner
TV · Director · 10 eps
Stravinsky: Once at a Border...
Movie · Director
Death in Venice
Movie · Director
At the Haunted End of the Day
Movie · Director
The Space Movie
Movie · Director
Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…
Movie · Director
Callas: A Documentary
Movie · Director
The Wigan Casino
Movie · Director
Mighty Good: The Beatles
Movie · Director
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
TV · Director · 17 eps
Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
Movie · Director
Harriet at Play
Movie · Director
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74
Movie · Director
Harriet At Butlins
Movie · Director
The World of Miss World
Movie · Director
Ginger Baker: In Africa
Movie · Director
The World of Liberace
Movie · Director
The World of Hugh Hefner
Movie · Director
Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort
Movie · Director
200 Motels
Movie · Director
Colosseum and Juicy Lucy
Movie · Director
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
Movie · Director
Cream: Farewell Concert
Movie · Director
All My Loving
Movie · Director
The Burning Fiery Furnace
Movie · Director
Benjamin Britten and His Festival
Movie · Director
Alice in Wonderland
Movie · Assistant Director