- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- August 29, 1941
- Place of Birth
- London
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 o…
Filmography
movieRichard Burton: Wild Genius
2025 · Self
movieLeonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
2024 · Director
movieAll We Got Was Love
2021 · Self
movieThe Beatles And World War II
2017 · Director, Writer
movieVangelis: The Interviews
2016 · Director
movieFrank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
2014 · Self
movieBritten: Nocturne
2013 · Editor, Director
movieThe Piano Room
2013
movieStaircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
2013 · Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
movieKeep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
2012 · Self
movieFalls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012 · Director
movieHolst: In the Bleak Midwinter
2011 · Director
movieRope Ladder to the Moon
2010 · Director
movieLeonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
2010 · Director, Writer
movieThe Wagner Family
2009 · Director
movieLed Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
2009 · Himself
movieO, Fortuna!
2008 · Director
movieO Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
2007 · Editor, Director
movieTangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
2006 · Director
movieHail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
2006 · Writer, Director
movieMargot
2005 · Director, Editor
movieToward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
2004 · Director
movieHero: The Bobby Moore Story
2002 · Director
movieLadies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
2002 · Director, Editor
movieThe Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999 · Director
movieParsifal: The Search for the Grail
1998 · Director
movieThe Kindness of Strangers
1998 · Director
movieRachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1998 · Director
movieThe Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
1996 · Director
movieBrahms and the Little Singing Girls
1996 · Director
movieEngland, My England
1995 · Director
movieHenryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
1993 · Director
movieMenuhin, A Family Portrait
1991 · Director
movieThe Children
1990 · Director
movieHindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
1990 · Director
movieTestimony
1988 · Director, Editor, Producer, Writer, Production Design
movieIn from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988 · Director
movieThe True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1988 · Self
movieCode Name Vengeance
1987 · Writer
movieGod Rot Tunbridge Wells!
1985 · Director
moviePuccini
1984 · Director
tvWagner
1983 · Director
movieStravinsky: Once at a Border...
1982 · Director
movieDeath in Venice
1981 · Editor, Director
movieAt the Haunted End of the Day
1981 · Director
movieThe Space Movie
1980 · Writer, Director
movieBenjamin Britten: A Time There Was…
1979 · Director
movieCallas: A Documentary
1978 · Director
movieThe Wigan Casino
1977 · Director
movieMighty Good: The Beatles
1977 · Director
tvAll You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
1977 · Director, Writer
movieBernstein Mahler Rehearsal
1976 · Director
movieHarriet at Play
1976 · Director
movieRory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74
1974 · Director
movieThe World of Miss World
1974 · Editor, Director
movieHarriet At Butlins
1974 · Director
movieThe World of Liberace
1973 · Director, Editor
movieGinger Baker: In Africa
1973 · Director, Editor
movieThe World of Hugh Hefner
1973 · Director
movieFairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort
1972 · Director, Writer
movieThe Making of 200 Motels
1971 · Self
movie200 Motels
1971 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
moviePerformance.
1970 · Editor
movieColosseum and Juicy Lucy
1970 · Director
movieWill the Real Mr Sellers.....?
1969 · Director
movieCream: Farewell Concert
1969 · Director
movieAll My Loving
1968 · Director
movieBenjamin Britten and His Festival
1967 · Editor, Director
movieThe Burning Fiery Furnace
1967 · Director, Writer
movieAlice in Wonderland
1966 · Assistant Director