Tony Garnett

Known for ProductionBorn 1936-04-03Died 2020-01-12Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Spongers

Drums Along The Avon

The Voices in the Park

Born Kicking

Stand Up, Nigel Barton

Buried

The Gorge

The Coming Out Party

Festival

This Life

Greg Davies: Looking for Kes

Beautiful Thing

Ballykissangel

Kes

The Boys

Studio 4

Law & Order

Family Life

Cardiac Arrest

In Two Minds

Black Jack

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

Days of Hope

The Save the Children Fund Film

Up the Junction

Cathy Come Home

Incident at Midnight

World in Action

Hard Labour

The Big Flame

Follow That Bird

Fat Man and Little Boy

Hostile Waters

The Golden Vision

The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup Final

Attachments

Handgun

The Rivals

Old Chums

Probation

A Light Snack

Afternoon

Earth Girls Are Easy

Between the Lines

The Sweet Body of Deborah

The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People

Prostitute

The Cops