Known For
Directing
Born
Aug 29, 1941
Place of Birth
London
Credits
71 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
Self
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
Director
All We Got Was Love
Self
The Beatles And World War II
Director
Vangelis: The Interviews
Director
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
Self
Britten: Nocturne
Editor
Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka
Director
The Piano Room
Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
Self
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Director
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
Director
Rope Ladder to the Moon
Director
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Director
The Wagner Family
Director
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
Himself
O, Fortuna!
Director
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Editor
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
Writer
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
Director
Margot
Director
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
Director
Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
Director
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
Director
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Director
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
Director
The Kindness of Strangers
Director
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
Director
The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
Director
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
Director
England, My England
Director
Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Director
Menuhin, A Family Portrait
Director
The Children
Director
Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
Director
Testimony
Director
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Director
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
Self
Code Name Vengeance
Writer
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
Director
Puccini
Director
Wagner
Director
Stravinsky: Once at a Border...
Director
Death in Venice
Editor
At the Haunted End of the Day
Director
The Space Movie
Writer
Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…
Director
Callas: A Documentary
Director
The Wigan Casino
Director