Tony Palmer
Known for Directing
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 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
Testimony
1988
Director
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
1969
Director
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999
Director
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
1985
Director
The Children
1990
Director
England, My England
1995
Director
The Space Movie
1980
Director
Puccini
1984
Director
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988
Director
200 Motels
1971
Director
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012
Director
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1998
Director
All My Loving
1968
Director
The World of Liberace
1973
Director
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
2006
Director
At the Haunted End of the Day
1981
Director
Mighty Good: The Beatles
1977
Director
Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
1976
Director
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
2004
Director
Callas: A Documentary
1978
Director