
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.
58 directing credits · 9 acting credits
Directing · 58

Wagner
1983

All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
1977

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988

200 Motels
1971

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999

The Children
1990

Puccini
1984

Testimony
1988

Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
1969

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012

Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
2004

Benjamin Britten and His Festival
1967

All My Loving
1968

Mighty Good: The Beatles
1977

Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
1998

Cream: Farewell Concert
1969

At the Haunted End of the Day
1981

Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
2006

The Space Movie
1980

Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
2006

Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1998

Callas: A Documentary
1978

Death in Venice
1981

Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
1996

The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
1996

Colosseum and Juicy Lucy
1970

Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
2011

Ginger Baker: In Africa
1973

The Wigan Casino
1977

The World of Liberace
1973

God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
1985

The World of Hugh Hefner
1973

Vangelis: The Interviews
2016

Harriet at Play
1976

Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…
1979

Margot
2005

Britten: Nocturne
2013

Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
1976

Rope Ladder to the Moon
2010

The Kindness of Strangers
1998

Menuhin, A Family Portrait
1991

England, My England
1995

Stravinsky: Once at a Border...
1982

Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
1993

The Beatles And World War II
2017

The World of Miss World
1974

Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74
1974

Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
2010

Harriet At Butlins
1974

O, Fortuna!
2008

O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
2007

The Wagner Family
2009

Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
2002

Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
1990

Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
2024

Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
2002

The Burning Fiery Furnace
1967

Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort
1972
Acting · 9

Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025

The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1988

Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
2014

Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
2012

The Making of 200 Motels
1971

Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
2009

The Piano Room
2013

All We Got Was Love
2021

Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
2013