Tony Palmer
Directing
1941-08-29 · London
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
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025 · Movie
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
2024 · Movie
All We Got Was Love
2021 · Movie
The Beatles And World War II
2017 · Movie
Vangelis: The Interviews
2016 · Movie
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
2014 · Movie
Britten: Nocturne
2013 · Movie
Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka
2013 · Movie
The Piano Room
2013 · Movie
Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
2013 · Movie
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
2012 · Movie
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012 · Movie
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
2011 · Movie
Rope Ladder to the Moon
2010 · Movie
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
2010 · Movie
The Wagner Family
2009 · Movie
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
2009 · Movie
O, Fortuna!
2008 · Movie
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
2007 · Movie
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
2006 · Movie
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
2006 · Movie
Margot
2005 · Movie
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
2004 · Movie
Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
2002 · Movie
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
2002 · Movie
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999 · Movie
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
1998 · Movie
The Kindness of Strangers
1998 · Movie
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1998 · Movie
The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
1996 · Movie
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
1996 · Movie
England, My England
1995 · Movie
Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
1993 · Movie
Menuhin, A Family Portrait
1991 · Movie
The Children
1990 · Movie
Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
1990 · Movie
Testimony
1988 · Movie
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988 · Movie
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1988 · Movie
Code Name Vengeance
1987 · Movie
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
1985 · Movie
Puccini
1984 · Movie
Wagner
1983 · Series
Stravinsky: Once at a Border...
1982 · Movie
Death in Venice
1981 · Movie
At the Haunted End of the Day
1981 · Movie
The Space Movie
1980 · Movie
Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…
1979 · Movie
Callas: A Documentary
1978 · Movie
The Wigan Casino
1977 · Movie
Mighty Good: The Beatles
1977 · Movie
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
1977 · Series
Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
1976 · Movie
Harriet at Play
1976 · Movie
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74
1974 · Movie
The World of Miss World
1974 · Movie
Harriet At Butlins
1974 · Movie
The World of Liberace
1973 · Movie
Ginger Baker: In Africa
1973 · Movie
The World of Hugh Hefner
1973 · Movie
Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort
1972 · Movie
The Making of 200 Motels
1971 · Movie
200 Motels
1971 · Movie
Performance.
1970 · Movie
Colosseum and Juicy Lucy
1970 · Movie
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
1969 · Movie
Cream: Farewell Concert
1969 · Movie
All My Loving
1968 · Movie
Benjamin Britten and His Festival
1967 · Movie
The Burning Fiery Furnace
1967 · Movie
Alice in Wonderland
1966 · Movie
Mozart in Japan
Series