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Tony Palmer

Known for: Directing

Biography: 1941-08-29 (82 years old)

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.

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Filmography

all 68

Movies 66

Director 57

self 8

TV Shows 2

Tony Palmer

Biography

Filmography

all 68

Movies 66

Director 57

self 8

TV Shows 2

Writer 1

Look Me Over: Liberace (2021)

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)

The Piano Room (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 World of Peter Sellers (2009)

The Wagner Family (2009)

Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused (2009)

O, Fortuna! (2008)

O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams (2007)

The Salzburg Festival (2006)

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)

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)

Maria Callas: La Divina: A Portrait (1987)

God Rot Tunbridge Wells! (1985)

Puccini (1984)

Wagner (1983)

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)

All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music (1977)

Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal (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)

Frank Zappa filmt 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)

The Burning Fiery Furnace (1967)

Tangerine Dream in Coventry Cathedral

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Known For
Directing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1941-08-29 (82 years old)

Birth Place
London, United Kingdom

Citizenships
United Kingdom

Awards
Emmy Award, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society