Tony Palmer
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday29 August 1941 (85 years old)
Place of birthLondon
Known credits71
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 I…
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025 · Self
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
2024 · Director
All We Got Was Love
2021 · Self
The Beatles And World War II
2017 · Director
The Beatles And World War II
2017 · Writer
Vangelis: The Interviews
2016 · Director
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
2014 · Self
Britten: Nocturne
2013 · Director
Britten: Nocturne
2013 · Editor
Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka
2013 · Director
The Piano Room
2013
Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
2013 · Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
2012 · Self
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012 · Director
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
2011 · Director
Rope Ladder to the Moon
2010 · Director
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
2010 · Director
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
2010 · Writer
The Wagner Family
2009 · Director
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
2009 · Himself
O, Fortuna!
2008 · Director
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
2007 · Editor
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
2007 · Director
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
2006 · Director
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
2006 · Director
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
2006 · Writer
Margot
2005 · Director
Margot
2005 · Editor
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
2004 · Director
Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
2002 · Director
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
2002 · Director
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
2002 · Editor
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999 · Director
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
1998 · Director
The Kindness of Strangers
1998 · Director
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1998 · Director
The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
1996 · Director
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
1996 · Director
England, My England
1995 · Director
Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
1993 · Director
Menuhin, A Family Portrait
1991 · Director
The Children
1990 · Director
Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
1990 · Director
Testimony
1988 · Director
Testimony
1988 · Writer
Testimony
1988 · Editor
Testimony
1988 · Production Design
Testimony
1988 · Producer
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