Tony Palmer

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Directing

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.    

Filmography

• Richard Burton: Wild Genius (2025)
• Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts (2024)
• All We Got Was Love (2021)
• The Beatles And World War II (2017)
• Vangelis: The Interviews (2016)
• Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers (2014)
• Britten: Nocturne (2013)
• Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka (2013)
• The Piano Room (2013)
• Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (2013)
• Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul (2012)
• Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard (2012)
• Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter (2011)
• Rope Ladder to the Moon (2010)
• Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire (2010)
• The Wagner Family (2009)
• Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused (2009)
• O, Fortuna! (2008)
• O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams (2007)
• Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral (2006)
• Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams (2006)
• Margot (2005)
• Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival (2004)
• Hero: The Bobby Moore Story (2002)
• Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming (2002)
• The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka (1999)
• Parsifal: The Search for the Grail (1998)
• The Kindness of Strangers (1998)
• Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow (1998)
• The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford (1996)
• Brahms and the Little Singing Girls (1996)
• England, My England (1995)
• Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (1993)
• Menuhin, A Family Portrait (1991)
• The Children (1990)
• Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress (1990)
• Testimony (1988)
• In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton (1988)
• The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1988)
• Code Name Vengeance (1987)
• God Rot Tunbridge Wells! (1985)
• Puccini (1984)
• Stravinsky: Once at a Border... (1982)
• Death in Venice (1981)
• At the Haunted End of the Day (1981)
• The Space Movie (1980)
• Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was… (1979)
• Callas: A Documentary (1978)
• The Wigan Casino (1977)
• Mighty Good: The Beatles (1977)
• Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal (1976)
• Harriet at Play (1976)
• Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74 (1974)
• The World of Miss World (1974)
• Harriet At Butlins (1974)
• The World of Liberace (1973)
• Ginger Baker: In Africa (1973)
• The World of Hugh Hefner (1973)
• Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort (1972)
• The Making of 200 Motels (1971)
• 200 Motels (1971)
• Performance. (1970)
• Colosseum and Juicy Lucy (1970)
• Will the Real Mr Sellers.....? (1969)
• Cream: Farewell Concert (1969)
• All My Loving (1968)
• Benjamin Britten and His Festival (1967)
• The Burning Fiery Furnace (1967)
• Alice in Wonderland (1966)