Tony Garnett
Production
1936-04-03 · Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK
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
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
2020 · Movie
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
2019 · Movie
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2016 · Movie
Making Kes
2010 · Movie
This Life +10
2007 · Movie
Carry On Ken
2006 · Movie
Buried
2003 · Series
Attachments
2000 · Series
The Cops
1998 · Series
Hostile Waters
1997 · Movie
Beautiful Thing
1996 · Movie
This Life
1996 · Series
Ballykissangel
1996 · Series
Sharman
1995 · Series
The Turnaround
1995 · Movie
Cardiac Arrest
1994 · Series
Born Kicking
1992 · Movie
Between the Lines
1992 · Series
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989 · Movie
Earth Girls Are Easy
1988 · Movie
Follow That Bird
1985 · Movie
Handgun
1983 · Movie
Afternoon
1982 · Movie
A Light Snack
1982 · Movie
Probation
1982 · Movie
Old Chums
1982 · Movie
The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup Final
1982 · Movie
Prostitute
1980 · Movie
Black Jack
1979 · Movie
Law & Order
1978 · Series
The Spongers
1978 · Movie
The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality
1977 · Movie
The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People
1977 · Movie
Days of Hope
1975 · Series
Steven
1974 · Movie
Blooming Youth
1973 · Movie
Hard Labour
1973 · Movie
Right to Work March
1972 · Movie
Family Life
1971 · Movie
The Save the Children Fund Film
1971 · Movie
The Body
1970 · Movie
Kes
1970 · Movie
The Big Flame
1969 · Movie
The Golden Vision
1968 · Movie
The Sweet Body of Deborah
1968 · Movie
The Parachute
1968 · Movie
The Gorge
1968 · Movie
Drums Along The Avon
1967 · Movie
The Voices in the Park
1967 · Movie
In Two Minds
1967 · Movie
The Lump
1967 · Movie
Cathy Come Home
1966 · Movie
The Coming Out Party
1965 · Movie
Stand Up, Nigel Barton
1965 · Movie
Up the Junction
1965 · Movie
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Series
Festival
1963 · Series
The Rivals
1963 · Movie
World in Action
1963 · Series
Incident at Midnight
1963 · Movie
The Boys
1962 · Movie
Studio 4
1962 · Series
An Age of Kings
1960 · Series