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