Tony Palmer
Biography
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.
Personal Details
Movies (48)
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
as Self
2025
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
Director (Directing)
2024
All We Got Was Love
as Self
2021
The Beatles And World War II
Director (Directing)
2017
Vangelis: The Interviews
Director (Directing)
2016
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
as Self
2014
Britten: Nocturne
Editor (Editing)
2013
The Piano Room
2013
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
as Self
2012
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Director (Directing)
2012
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
Director (Directing)
2011
Rope Ladder to the Moon
Director (Directing)
2010
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Director (Directing)
2010
The Wagner Family
Director (Directing)
2009
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
as Himself
2009
O, Fortuna!
Director (Directing)
2008
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Editor (Editing)
2007
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
Director (Directing)
2006
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
Writer (Writing)
2006
Margot
Director (Directing)
2005
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
Director (Directing)
2004
Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
Director (Directing)
2002
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
Director (Directing)
2002
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Director (Directing)
1999
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
Director (Directing)
1998
The Kindness of Strangers
Director (Directing)
1998
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
Director (Directing)
1998
The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
Director (Directing)
1996
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
Director (Directing)
1996
England, My England
Director (Directing)
1995
Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Director (Directing)
1993
Menuhin, A Family Portrait
Director (Directing)
1991
The Children
Director (Directing)
1990
Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
Director (Directing)
1990
Testimony
Director (Directing)
1988
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Director (Directing)
1988
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
as Self
1988
Code Name: Vengeance
Writer (Writing)
1987
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
Director (Directing)
1985
Puccini
Director (Directing)
1984
Stravinsky: Once at a Border...
Director (Directing)
1982
Death in Venice
Editor (Editing)
1981
At the Haunted End of the Day
Director (Directing)
1981
The Space Movie
Writer (Writing)
1980
Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…
Director (Directing)
1979
Callas: A Documentary
Director (Directing)
1978
The Wigan Casino
Director (Directing)
1977
Mighty Good: The Beatles
Director (Directing)
1977
