Tony Palmer
Born: 1941-08-29 in London
Known For: Directing
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Palmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- Richard Burton: Wild Genius as Self
2024
- Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts ... (Director)
2021
- All We Got Was Love as Self
2017
- The Beatles And World War II ... (Director)
2016
- Vangelis: The Interviews ... (Director)
2013
- The Piano Room
- Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining as Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
- Britten: Nocturne ... (Editor)
2012
- Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul as Self
- Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard ... (Director)
2011
- Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter ... (Director)
2010
- Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire ... (Director)
- Rope Ladder to the Moon ... (Director)
2009
- Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused as Himself
- The Wagner Family ... (Director)
2008
- O, Fortuna! ... (Director)
2007
2006
- Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams ... (Writer)
- Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral ... (Director)
2005
- Margot ... (Director)
2004
2002
- Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming ... (Director)
- Hero: The Bobby Moore Story ... (Director)
1999
- The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka ... (Director)
1998
- Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow ... (Director)
- Parsifal: The Search for the Grail ... (Director)
- The Kindness of Strangers ... (Director)
1996
- The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford ... (Director)
- Brahms and the Little Singing Girls ... (Director)
1995
- England, My England ... (Director)
1993
- Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs ... (Director)
1991
- Menuhin, A Family Portrait ... (Director)
1990
- The Children ... (Director)
- Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress ... (Director)
1988
- In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton ... (Director)
- Testimony ... (Director)
- The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels as Self
1987
- Code Name Vengeance ... (Writer)
1985
- God Rot Tunbridge Wells! ... (Director)
1984
- Puccini ... (Director)
1983
- Wagner ... (Director)
1982
- Stravinsky: Once at a Border... ... (Director)
1981
- At the Haunted End of the Day ... (Director)
- Death in Venice ... (Editor)
1980
- The Space Movie ... (Writer)
1979
- Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was… ... (Director)
1978
- Callas: A Documentary ... (Director)
1977
- All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music ... (Director)
- Mighty Good: The Beatles ... (Director)
- The Wigan Casino ... (Director)
1976
- Harriet at Play ... (Director)
- Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal ... (Director)
1974
- Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74 ... (Director)
- The World of Miss World ... (Editor)
- Harriet At Butlins ... (Director)
1973
- The World of Liberace ... (Director)
- Ginger Baker: In Africa ... (Director)
- The World of Hugh Hefner ... (Director)
1972
- Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort ... (Director)
1971
- 200 Motels ... (Director)
- The Making of 200 Motels as Self
1970
- Performance ... (Editor)
- Colosseum and Juicy Lucy ... (Director)
1969
- Will the Real Mr Sellers.....? ... (Director)
- Cream: Farewell Concert ... (Director)
1968
- All My Loving ... (Director)
1967
- Benjamin Britten and His Festival ... (Editor)
- The Burning Fiery Furnace ... (Director)