Tony Palmer
61 movies · 2 TV shows
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Aug 29, 1941 (age 85)
- Place of birth
- 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.
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Known for
Tony Palmer: movies and TV shows
Acting (1)
- 2013
Behind the camera (62)
- 2024
- 2017 The Beatles And World War II
Director, Writer
- 2016 Vangelis: The Interviews
Director
- 2013 Britten: Nocturne
Director, Editor
- 2013 Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka
Director
- 2012
- 2011 Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
Director
- 2010 Rope Ladder to the Moon
Director
- 2010 Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Director, Writer
- 2009 The Wagner Family
Director
- 2008 O, Fortuna!
Director
- 2007 O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Editor, Director
- 2006
- 2006 Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
Writer, Director
- 2005 Margot
Director, Editor
- 2004
- 2002 Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
Director
- 2002 Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
Director, Editor
- 1999 The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Director
- 1998 Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
Director
- 1998 The Kindness of Strangers
Director
- 1998 Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
Director
- 1996
- 1996 Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
Director
- 1995 England, My England
Director
- 1993
- 1991 Menuhin, A Family Portrait
Director
- 1990 The Children
Director
- 1990 Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
Director
- 1988 Testimony
Director, Writer, Production Design, Producer, Editor
- 1988
- 1987 Code Name Vengeance
Writer
- 1985 God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
Director
- 1984 Puccini
Director
- 1983
- 1982 Stravinsky: Once at a Border...
Director
- 1981 Death in Venice
Editor, Director
- 1981 At the Haunted End of the Day
Director
- 1980 The Space Movie
Director, Writer
- 1979 Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…
Director
- 1978 Callas: A Documentary
Director
- 1977 The Wigan Casino
Director
- 1977 Mighty Good: The Beatles
Director
- 1977
- 1976 Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
Director
- 1976 Harriet at Play
Director
- 1974 Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74
Director
- 1974 The World of Miss World
Editor, Director
- 1974 Harriet At Butlins
Director
- 1973 The World of Liberace
Director, Editor
- 1973 Ginger Baker: In Africa
Director, Editor
- 1973 The World of Hugh Hefner
Director
- 1972 Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort
Director, Writer
- 1971 200 Motels
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
- 1970 Performance.
Editor
- 1970 Colosseum and Juicy Lucy
Director
- 1969 Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
Director
- 1969 Cream: Farewell Concert
Director
- 1968 All My Loving
Director
- 1967 Benjamin Britten and His Festival
Director, Editor
- 1967 The Burning Fiery Furnace
Director, Writer
- 1966 Alice in Wonderland
Assistant Director
Talk shows and appearances (8)
- 2025
- 2021
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2009
- 1988
- 1971