Tony Palmer
Directing · Born Aug 29, 1941 · London
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.
Known for
Directed
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
2024
The Beatles And World War II
2017
Vangelis: The Interviews
2016
Britten: Nocturne
2013
Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka
20137.5
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
2011
Rope Ladder to the Moon
201010.0
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
20105.6
The Wagner Family
2009
O, Fortuna!
2008
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
2007
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
200610.0
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
2006
Margot
2005
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
2004
Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
20028.0
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
2002
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
199910.0
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
1998
The Kindness of Strangers
1998
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1998
The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
1996
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
19961.0
England, My England
19956.5
Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
1993
Menuhin, A Family Portrait
19918.0
The Children
19904.9
Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
1990
Testimony
19885.6
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
19886.3
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
19855.5
Puccini
19844.2
Wagner
19836.8
Stravinsky: Once at a Border...
1982
Death in Venice
19813.9
At the Haunted End of the Day
1981
The Space Movie
19805.4
Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…
1979
Callas: A Documentary
19787.0
The Wigan Casino
1977
Mighty Good: The Beatles
19775.0
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
19776.5
Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
19767.0
Harriet at Play
1976
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74
19748.8
Harriet At Butlins
1974
The World of Miss World
1974
The World of Liberace
19737.0
Ginger Baker: In Africa
19736.0
The World of Hugh Hefner
1973
Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort
1972
200 Motels
19715.1
Colosseum and Juicy Lucy
197010.0
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
1969
Cream: Farewell Concert
19696.6
All My Loving
19686.5
Benjamin Britten and His Festival
1967
The Burning Fiery Furnace
19679.0
