Directing · b. 1941 · London

Tony Palmer

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 I...

Directed
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts 2024 The Beatles And World War II 2017 Vangelis: The Interviews 2016 Britten: Nocturne 2013 Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard 2012 Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter 2011 Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire 2010 Rope Ladder to the Moon 2010 The Wagner Family 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 The Kindness of Strangers 1998 Parsifal: The Search for the Grail 1998 Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow 1998 Brahms and the Little Singing Girls 1996 The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford 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 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 Harriet At Butlins 1974 The World of Miss World 1974 Ginger Baker: In Africa 1973 The World of Liberace 1973 The World of Hugh Hefner 1973 Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort 1972 200 Motels 1971 Colosseum and Juicy Lucy 1970 Will the Real Mr Sellers.....? 1969 Cream: Farewell Concert 1969 All My Loving 1968 The Burning Fiery Furnace 1967 Benjamin Britten and His Festival 1967
Cinematography
200 Motels 1971
Acting
Richard Burton: Wild Genius Self 2025 All We Got Was Love Self 2021 Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers Self 2014 The Piano Room 2013 Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition) 2013 Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul Self 2012 Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused Himself 2009 The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels Self 1988 The Making of 200 Motels Self 1971
Other Credits
Code Name Vengeance Writer 1987 Performance Editor 1970
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