Tony Palmer
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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Fotos
Filmes (69)
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025 · Self
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
2024 · Director
All We Got Was Love
2021 · Self
The Beatles And World War II
2017 · Director, Writer
Vangelis: The Interviews
2016 · Director
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
2014 · Self
Britten: Nocturne
2013 · Director, Editor
Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka
2013 · Director
The Piano Room
2013
Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
2013 · Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
2012 · Self
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012 · Director
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
2011 · Director
Rope Ladder to the Moon
2010 · Director
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
2010 · Director, Writer
The Wagner Family
2009 · Director
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
2009 · Himself
O, Fortuna!
2008 · Director
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
2007 · Editor, Director
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
2006 · Director
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
2006 · Writer, Director
Margot
2005 · Director, Editor
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
2004 · Director
Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
2002 · Director
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
2002 · Director, Editor
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999 · Director
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
1998 · Director
The Kindness of Strangers
1998 · Director
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1998 · Director
The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
1996 · Director
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
1996 · Director
England, My England
1995 · Director
Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
1993 · Director
Menuhin, A Family Portrait
1991 · Director
The Children
1990 · Director
Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
1990 · Director
Testimony
1988 · Director, Writer, Production Design, Producer, Editor
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988 · Director
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1988 · Self
Code Name Vengeance
1987 · Writer
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
1985 · Director
Puccini
1984 · Director
Stravinsky: Once at a Border...
1982 · Director
Death in Venice
1981 · Editor, Director
At the Haunted End of the Day
1981 · Director
The Space Movie
1980 · Director, Writer
Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…
1979 · Director
Callas: A Documentary
1978 · Director
The Wigan Casino
1977 · Director
Mighty Good: The Beatles
1977 · Director
Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
1976 · Director
Harriet at Play
1976 · Director
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74
1974 · Director
The World of Miss World
1974 · Editor, Director
Harriet At Butlins
1974 · Director
The World of Liberace
1973 · Director, Editor
Ginger Baker: In Africa
1973 · Director, Editor
The World of Hugh Hefner
1973 · Director
Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort
1972 · Director, Writer
The Making of 200 Motels
1971 · Self
200 Motels
1971 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Performance.
1970 · Editor
Colosseum and Juicy Lucy
1970 · Director
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
1969 · Director
Cream: Farewell Concert
1969 · Director
All My Loving
1968 · Director
Benjamin Britten and His Festival
1967 · Director, Editor
The Burning Fiery Furnace
1967 · Director, Writer
Alice in Wonderland
1966 · Assistant Director
