Tony Palmer
Born in London — Aug 29 1941
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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 an…
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Wagner
Directing
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
Directing
Performance
Editing
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
Self
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Directing
Testimony
Directing
Code Name Vengeance
Writing
All My Loving
Directing
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
Self
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Directing
200 Motels
Directing
The Children
Directing
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Directing
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
Directing
Puccini
Directing
At the Haunted End of the Day
Directing
England, My England
Directing
Margot
Directing
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Directing
The Piano Room
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
Directing
The Space Movie
Directing
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
Self
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
Directing
Mighty Good: The Beatles
Directing
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
Himself
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
Self
Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
Directing
The Making of 200 Motels
Self
Cream: Farewell Concert
Directing
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
Directing
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
Directing
Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort
Directing
Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
The Wigan Casino
Directing
Harriet at Play
Directing
The World of Hugh Hefner
Directing
Rope Ladder to the Moon
Directing
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
Directing
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
Directing
Vangelis: The Interviews
Directing
Colosseum and Juicy Lucy
Directing
The World of Liberace
Directing
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
Directing
Callas: A Documentary
Directing
The Kindness of Strangers
Directing
Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
Directing
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
Directing
Ginger Baker: In Africa
Directing
Death in Venice
Editing
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
Directing
Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Directing
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74
Directing
The Burning Fiery Furnace
Directing
The World of Miss World
Editing
Benjamin Britten and His Festival
Directing
Stravinsky: Once at a Border...
Directing
The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
Directing
O, Fortuna!
Directing
Britten: Nocturne
Directing
Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
Directing
Menuhin, A Family Portrait
Directing
The Wagner Family
Directing
Harriet At Butlins
Directing
Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…
Directing
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Editing
The Beatles And World War II
Directing
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
Directing
All We Got Was Love
Self