Tony Garnett
Born: 1936-04-03 in Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK
Died: 2020-01-12
Known For: Production
Biography
Tony Garnett is a British film and television producer, director and former actor. He is best known for his thirteen-year association with director Ken Loach, which started with The Wednesday Play and the groundbreaking Cathy Come Home amongst others, and continued into Play For Today and big screen features such as Kes. His other TV productions have included the controversial Law and Order and The Spongers and, with his company World Productions, Between the Lines, Ballykissangel, Cops, Cardiac Arrest and This Life. As a director, he helmed the films Prostitute and Handgun, and produced Hollywood movies such as Earth Girls are Easy and Sesame Street's Follow That Bird, and British cult LGBT classic Beautiful Thing. In 2016, he released his memoir, The Day the Music Died.
Filmography
2020
- Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today as Self – Producer (archive footage, 1993)
2019
- Greg Davies: Looking for Kes as Self
2016
- Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach as Self - Friend and Producer
2010
- Making Kes as Self
2007
- This Life +10 ... (Producer)
2006
2003
- Buried ... (Executive Producer)
2000
- Attachments ... (Executive Producer)
1998
- The Cops ... (Executive Producer)
1997
- Hostile Waters ... (Producer)
1996
- Ballykissangel ... (Producer)
- This Life ... (Executive Producer)
- Beautiful Thing ... (Producer)
1995
- Sharman ... (Executive Producer)
- The Turnaround ... (Executive Producer)
1994
- Cardiac Arrest ... (Producer)
1992
- Between the Lines ... (Producer)
- Born Kicking ... (Producer)
1989
- Fat Man and Little Boy ... (Producer)
1988
- Earth Girls Are Easy ... (Producer)
1985
- Follow That Bird ... (Producer)
1983
- Handgun ... (Director)
1982
- Old Chums ... (Producer)
- A Light Snack ... (Producer)
- The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup Final ... (Producer)
- Afternoon ... (Producer)
- Probation ... (Producer)
1980
- Prostitute ... (Director)
1979
- Black Jack ... (Producer)
1978
- Law & Order ... (Producer)
- The Spongers ... (Producer)
1977
- The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People ... (Producer)
- The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality ... (Producer)
1975
- Days of Hope ... (Producer)
1974
- Steven ... (Producer)
1973
- Hard Labour ... (Producer)
- Blooming Youth ... (Producer)
1972
1971
- Family Life ... (Producer)
- The Save the Children Fund Film ... (Producer)
1969
- The Big Flame ... (Producer)
1968
- The Sweet Body of Deborah ... (Producer)
- The Parachute ... (Producer)
- The Golden Vision ... (Producer)
- The Gorge ... (Producer)
1967
- Drums Along The Avon ... (Producer)
- The Voices in the Park ... (Producer)
- The Lump ... (Producer)
- In Two Minds ... (Producer)
1966
- Cathy Come Home ... (Producer)
1965
- BBC Play of the Month ... (Producer)
- Stand Up, Nigel Barton ... (Story Editor)
- The Coming Out Party ... (Story Editor)
- Up the Junction ... (Story Editor)
1963
- World in Action
- Festival as Reg
- Incident at Midnight as Brennan
- The Rivals as Jimmy Vosler