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- Known For
- Production
- Born
- April 3, 1936
- Place of Birth
- Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK
- Died
- January 12, 2020
Tony Garnett
Tony Garnett is a British film and television producer, director and former actor. He is best known for his thirteen-year association with director Ken Loach, which started with The Wednesday Play and the groundbreaking Cathy Come Home amongst others, and continued into Play For Today and big screen features such as Kes. His other TV productions have included the controversial Law and Order and The Spongers and, with his company World Productions, Between the Lines, Ballykissangel, Cops, Cardiac Arrest and This Life. As a director, he helmed the films Prostitute and Handgun, and produced Hollywood movies such as Earth Girls are Easy and Sesame Street's Follow That Bird, and British cult LGBT classic Beautiful Thing. In 2016, he released his memoir, The Day the Music Died.
Filmography
movieDrama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
2020 · Self – Producer (archive footage, 1993)
movieGreg Davies: Looking for Kes
2019 · Self
movieVersus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2016 · Self - Friend and Producer
movieMaking Kes
2010 · Self
movieThis Life +10
2007 · Producer
movieCarry On Ken
2006
tvBuried
2003 · Executive Producer
Attachments
tvAttachments
2000 · Executive Producer, Creator
tvThe Cops
1998 · Executive Producer
movieHostile Waters
1997 · Producer
movieBeautiful Thing
1996 · Producer
tvThis Life
1996 · Executive Producer
tvBallykissangel
1996 · Producer
movieThe Turnaround
1995 · Executive Producer
tvSharman
1995 · Executive Producer
tvCardiac Arrest
1994 · Producer
movieBorn Kicking
1992 · Producer
tvBetween the Lines
1992 · Producer, Executive Producer
movieFat Man and Little Boy
1989 · Producer
movieEarth Girls Are Easy
1988 · Producer
movieFollow That Bird
1985 · Producer
movieHandgun
1983 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieAfternoon
1982 · Producer
A Light Snack
movieA Light Snack
1982 · Producer
movieProbation
1982 · Producer
movieOld Chums
1982 · Producer
movieThe Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup Final
1982 · Producer
movieProstitute
1980 · Director, Producer, Writer
movieBlack Jack
1979 · Producer
tvLaw & Order
1978 · Producer
movieThe Spongers
1978 · Producer
movieThe Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality
1977 · Producer
movieThe Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People
1977 · Producer
tvDays of Hope
1975 · Producer
Steven
movieSteven
1974 · Producer
movieBlooming Youth
1973 · Producer
movieHard Labour
1973 · Producer
movieRight to Work March
1972
movieFamily Life
1971 · Producer
movieThe Save the Children Fund Film
1971 · Producer
movieThe Body
1970 · Producer
movieKes
1970 · Producer, Screenplay
movieThe Big Flame
1969 · Producer
movieThe Golden Vision
1968 · Producer
movieThe Sweet Body of Deborah
1968 · Producer
movieThe Parachute
1968 · Producer
movieThe Gorge
1968 · Producer
movieDrums Along The Avon
1967 · Producer
The Voices in the Park
movieThe Voices in the Park
1967 · Producer
movieIn Two Minds
1967 · Producer
movieThe Lump
1967 · Producer
movieCathy Come Home
1966 · Producer
movieThe Coming Out Party
1965 · Story Editor
movieStand Up, Nigel Barton
1965 · Story Editor
movieUp the Junction
1965 · Story Editor
tvBBC Play of the Month
1965 · Producer
Festival
tvFestival
1963 · Reg
movieThe Rivals
1963 · Jimmy Vosler
movieIncident at Midnight
1963 · Brennan
tvWorld in Action
1963
movieThe Boys
1962 · James Alan "Ginger" Thompson
Studio 4
tvStudio 4
1962 · Gianmaria Bargigli
tvAn Age of Kings
1960 · , Sir Thomas Grey, Bates, Vernon