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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.

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Directing

1967

[ ] The Burning Fiery Furnace (Director)
[ ] Benjamin Britten and His Festival (Director)

1968

[ ] All My Loving (Director)

1969

[ ] Will the Real Mr Sellers.....? (Director)
[ ] Cream – Farewell Concert (Director)

1970

[ ] Colosseum and Juicy Lucy (Director)

1971

[ ] 200 Motels (Director)

1972

[ ] Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort (Director)

1973

[ ] Ginger Baker: In Africa (Director)
[ ] The World of Liberace (Director)
[ ] The World of Hugh Hefner (Director)

1974

[ ] Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74 (Director)
[ ] Harriet At Butlins (Director)
[ ] The World of Miss World (Director)

1976

[ ] Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal (Director)

1977

[ ] The Wigan Casino (Director)
[ ] Mighty Good: The Beatles (Director)

1978

[ ] Callas: A Documentary (Director)

1979

[ ] Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was… (Director)

1980

[ ] The Space Movie (Director)

1981

[ ] Death in Venice (Director)
[ ] At the Haunted End of the Day (Director)

1982

[ ] Stravinsky: Once at a Border... (Director)

1984

[ ] Puccini (Director)

1985

[ ] God Rot Tunbridge Wells! (Director)

1988

[ ] Testimony (Director)
[ ] In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton (Director)

1990

[ ] The Children (Director)
[ ] Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress (Director)

1991

[ ] Menuhin, A Family Portrait (Director)

1993

[ ] Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (Director)

1995

[ ] England, My England (Director)

1996

[ ] Brahms and the Little Singing Girls (Director)
[ ] The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford (Director)

1998

[ ] The Kindness of Strangers (Director)
[ ] Parsifal: The Search for the Grail (Director)
[ ] Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow (Director)

1999

[ ] The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka (Director)

2002

[ ] Hero: The Bobby Moore Story (Director)
[ ] Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming (Director)

2004

[ ] Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival (Director)

2005

[ ] Margot (Director)

2006

[ ] Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral (Director)
[ ] Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams (Director)

2007

[ ] O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams (Director)

2008

[ ] O, Fortuna! (Director)

2009

[ ] The Wagner Family (Director)

2010

[ ] Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire (Director)
[ ] Rope Ladder to the Moon (Director)

2011

[ ] Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter (Director)

2012

[ ] Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard (Director)

2013

[ ] Britten: Nocturne (Director)

2016

[ ] Vangelis: The Interviews (Director)

2017

[ ] The Beatles And World War II (Director)

2024

[ ] Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts (Director)

????

[ ] Harriet at Play (Director)

Writing

1967

[ ] The Burning Fiery Furnace (Writer)

1971

[ ] 200 Motels (Writer)

1972

[ ] Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort (Writer)

1980

[ ] The Space Movie (Writer)

1987

[ ] Code Name: Vengeance (Writer)

1988

[ ] Testimony (Writer)

2006

[ ] Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams (Writer)

2010

[ ] Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire (Writer)

2017

[ ] The Beatles And World War II (Writer)

Editing

1967

[ ] Benjamin Britten and His Festival (Editor)

1970

[ 5/10 ] Performance (Editor)

1973

[ ] The World of Liberace (Editor)
[ ] Ginger Baker: In Africa (Editor)

1974

[ ] The World of Miss World (Editor)

1981

[ ] Death in Venice (Editor)

1988

[ ] Testimony (Editor)

2002

[ ] Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming (Editor)

2005

[ ] Margot (Editor)

2007

[ ] O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams (Editor)

2013

[ ] Britten: Nocturne (Editor)

Production

1988

[ ] Testimony (Producer)

Art

1988

[ ] Testimony (Production Design)

Camera

1971

[ ] 200 Motels (Director of Photography)

Actor

1971

[ ] Frank Zappa filmt 200 Motels (Self)

1988

[ ] The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (Self)

2009

[ ] Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused (Himself)

2012

[ ] Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul (Self)

2013

[ ] The Piano Room (????)

2014

[ ] Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers (Self)

2021

[ ] All We Got Was Love (Self)

2025

[ ] Richard Burton: Wild Genius (Self)