
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Palmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
- Known ForDirecting
- Born29 August 1941 (age 84)
- Place of BirthLondon
Tony Palmer

- Known ForDirecting
- Born29 August 1941 (age 84)
- Place of BirthLondon

Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
2024

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

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012

Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
2012

Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
2011

Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
2010

Rope Ladder to the Moon
2010

The Wagner Family
2009

Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
2009

O, Fortuna!
2008

O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
2007

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

The Kindness of Strangers
1998

Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
1998

Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1998

Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
1996

The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
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

God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
1985

Puccini
1984

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

Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
1976

Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74
1974

Harriet At Butlins
1974

The World of Miss World
1974

Ginger Baker: In Africa
1973

The World of Liberace
1973

The World of Hugh Hefner
1973

Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort
1972

200 Motels
1971
Frank Zappa filmt 200 Motels
1971

Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
1969

All My Loving
1968

The Burning Fiery Furnace
1967
