Tony Palmer

Directing·Aug 29, 1941·London

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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.

Film	Credit
Richard Burton: Wild Genius2025 · Self	Self
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts2024 · Director	Director
All We Got Was Love2021 · Self	Self
The Beatles And World War II2017 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Vangelis: The Interviews2016 · Director	Director
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers2014 · Self	Self
Britten: Nocturne2013 · Director	Director
The Piano Room2013 · Actor	Actor
Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining2013 · Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)	Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul2012 · Self	Self
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard2012 · Director	Director
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter2011 · Director	Director
Rope Ladder to the Moon2010 · Director	Director
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire2010 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
The Wagner Family2009 · Director	Director
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused2009 · Himself	Himself
O, Fortuna!2008 · Director	Director
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams2007 · Director	Director
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral2006 · Director	Director
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams2006 · Writer, Director	Writer, Director
Margot2005 · Director	Director
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival2004 · Director	Director
Hero: The Bobby Moore Story2002 · Director	Director
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming2002 · Director	Director
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka1999 · Director	Director
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail1998 · Director	Director
The Kindness of Strangers1998 · Director	Director
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow1998 · Director	Director
The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford1996 · Director	Director
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls1996 · Director	Director
England, My England1995 · Director	Director
Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs1993 · Director	Director
Menuhin, A Family Portrait1991 · Director	Director
The Children1990 · Director	Director
Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress1990 · Director	Director
Testimony1988 · Director, Writer, Producer	Director, Writer, Producer
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton1988 · Director	Director
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels1988 · Self	Self
Code Name Vengeance1987 · Writer	Writer
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!1985 · Director	Director
Puccini1984 · Director	Director
Stravinsky: Once at a Border...1982 · Director	Director
Death in Venice1981 · Director	Director
At the Haunted End of the Day1981 · Director	Director
The Space Movie1980 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…1979 · Director	Director
Callas: A Documentary1978 · Director	Director
The Wigan Casino1977 · Director	Director