Tony Palmer

Known for DirectingBorn 1941-08-29 (age 84)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. Read more

Movies & web series

Rope Ladder to the Moon

Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

Colosseum and Juicy Lucy

The Burning Fiery Furnace

Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74

Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers

Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

Hero: The Bobby Moore Story

Menuhin, A Family Portrait

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused

Callas: A Documentary

Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal

The World of Liberace

Wagner

Performance.

England, My England

All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music

All My Loving

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton

Ginger Baker: In Africa

Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire

Alice in Wonderland

Cream: Farewell Concert

Testimony

God Rot Tunbridge Wells!

The Space Movie

The Piano Room

200 Motels

The Children

Code Name Vengeance

Mighty Good: The Beatles

Puccini

Death in Venice

Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts

All We Got Was Love

The Beatles And World War II

Vangelis: The Interviews

Britten: Nocturne

Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter

The Wagner Family

O, Fortuna!

O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams

Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams