Tony Palmer

Birthday: 1941-08-29
Birthplace: London
Gender: Male

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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Credits

Year Title
Tangerine Dream in Coventry Cathedral
2017-05-03 The Beatles And World War II
2016-09-01 Vangelis: The Interviews
2013-12-03 Britten: Nocturne
2012-05-28 Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2011-04-12 Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
2010-09-21 Rope Ladder to the Moon
2010-08-01 Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
2009-09-14 The Wagner Family
2008-01-01 O, Fortuna!
2007-12-31 O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
2006-01-01 Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
2006-01-01 Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
2005-01-11 Margot
2004-10-03 Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
2002-03-25 Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
2002-02-03 Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
1999-01-01 The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1998-07-08 Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
1998-07-01 The Kindness of Strangers
1998-01-01 Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1996-11-11 The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
1996-01-01 Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
1995-01-01 England, My England
1993-04-04 Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
1991-08-12 Menuhin, A Family Portrait
1990-05-18 The Children
1990-04-14 Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
1988-11-01 Testimony
1988-09-20 In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1985-01-01 God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
1984-01-01 Puccini
1982-01-01 Stravinsky: Once at a Border...
1981-08-11 Death in Venice
1981-01-01 At the Haunted End of the Day
1980-11-17 The Space Movie
1979-01-09 Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…
1978-09-16 Callas: A Documentary
1977-12-12 The Wigan Casino
1977-05-14 Mighty Good: The Beatles
1976-07-08 Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
1974-10-25 Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74
1974-01-01 Harriet At Butlins
1974-01-01 The World of Miss World
1973-08-27 The World of Liberace
1973-07-15 Ginger Baker: In Africa
1973-01-01 The World of Hugh Hefner
1972-05-22 Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort
1971-11-10 200 Motels
1969-12-18 Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
1968-11-03 All My Loving
1967-11-22 Benjamin Britten and His Festival
1967-11-12 The Burning Fiery Furnace