Tony Garnett
Biography
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.
Personal Details
Movies (40)
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
as Self
2019
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
as Self - Friend and Producer
2016
Making Kes
as Self
2010
Carry On Ken
2006
Hostile Waters
Producer (Production)
1997
Beautiful Thing
Producer (Production)
1996
The Turnaround
Executive Producer (Production)
1995
Born Kicking
Producer (Production)
1992
Fat Man and Little Boy
Producer (Production)
1989
Earth Girls Are Easy
Producer (Production)
1988
Follow That Bird
Producer (Production)
1985
Handgun
Director (Directing)
1983
Afternoon
Producer (Production)
1982
A Light Snack
Producer (Production)
1982
Probation
Producer (Production)
1982
Old Chums
Producer (Production)
1982
The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup Final
Producer (Production)
1982
Prostitute
Director (Directing)
1980
Black Jack
Producer (Production)
1979
The Spongers
Producer (Production)
1978
The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality
Producer (Production)
1977
The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People
Producer (Production)
1977
Blooming Youth
Producer (Production)
1973
Hard Labour
Producer (Production)
1973
Right to Work March
1972
Family Life
Producer (Production)
1971
After a Lifetime
Producer (Production)
1971
The Save the Children Fund Film
Producer (Production)
1971
The Body
Producer (Production)
1970
Kes
Screenplay (Writing)
1970
The Big Flame
Producer (Production)
1969
The Golden Vision
Producer (Production)
1968
The Sweet Body of Deborah
Producer (Production)
1968
The Parachute
Producer (Production)
1968
The Gorge
Producer (Production)
1968
Drums Along The Avon
Producer (Production)
1967
The Voices in the Park
Producer (Production)
1967
In Two Minds
Producer (Production)
1967
The Lump
Producer (Production)
1967
Cathy Come Home
Producer (Production)
1966
TV Shows (10)
Buried
Executive Producer (Production)
2003
Attachments
Executive Producer (Production)
2000
The Cops
Executive Producer (Production)
1998
This Life
Executive Producer (Production)
1996
Ballykissangel
Producer (Production)
1996
Sharman
Executive Producer (Production)
1995
Cardiac Arrest
Producer (Production)
1994
Between the Lines
Producer (Production)
1992
Law & Order
Producer (Production)
1978
Days of Hope
Producer (Production)
1975