Tony Palmer
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- August 29, 1941
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
Richard Burton: Wild Genius 2025
as Self
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts 2024
Director
All We Got Was Love 2021
as Self
The Beatles And World War II 2017
Director, Writer
Vangelis: The Interviews 2016
Director
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers 2014
as Self
Britten: Nocturne 2013
Director, Editor
Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka 2013
Director
The Piano Room 2013
Actor
Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining 2013
as Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul 2012
as 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, Writer
The Wagner Family 2009
Director
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused 2009
as Himself
O, Fortuna! 2008
Director
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams 2007
Editor, Director
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams 2006
Writer, Director
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral 2006
Director
Margot 2005
Director, 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, 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, Writer, Production Design, Producer, Editor
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton 1988
Director
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels 1988
as Self
Code Name Vengeance 1987
Writer
God Rot Tunbridge Wells! 1985
Director
Puccini 1984
Director
Stravinsky: Once at a Border... 1982
Director
Death in Venice 1981
Editor, Director
At the Haunted End of the Day 1981
Director
The Space Movie 1980
Director, Writer
Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was… 1979
Director
Callas: A Documentary 1978
Director
The Wigan Casino 1977
Director
Mighty Good: The Beatles 1977
Director
Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal 1976
Director
Harriet at Play 1976
Director
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74 1974
Director
Harriet At Butlins 1974
Director
The World of Miss World 1974
Editor, Director
The World of Liberace 1973
Director, Editor
Ginger Baker: In Africa 1973
Director, Editor
The World of Hugh Hefner 1973
Director
Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort 1972
Director, Writer
The Making of 200 Motels 1971
as Self
200 Motels 1971
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Performance. 1970
Editor
Colosseum and Juicy Lucy 1970
Director
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....? 1969
Director
Cream: Farewell Concert 1969
Director
All My Loving 1968
Director
Benjamin Britten and His Festival 1967
Director, Editor
The Burning Fiery Furnace 1967
Director, Writer
Alice in Wonderland 1966
Assistant Director
Credits from TMDB.