Directing
Tony Palmer
EN, MK, NL cinema · 69 credits
Born
29 August 1941 (age 85)
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.
Known for
Filmography
The Beatles And World War II
Director, Writer
Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
as Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
Britten: Nocturne
Director, Editor
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Director, Writer
O, Fortuna!
Director
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
Writer, Director
Margot
Director, Editor
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
Director, Editor
England, My England
Director
The Children
Director
Testimony
Director, Writer, Production Design, Producer, Editor
Puccini
Director
Death in Venice
Editor, Director
The Space Movie
Director, Writer
The World of Miss World
Editor, Director
Ginger Baker: In Africa
Director, Editor
The World of Liberace
Director, Editor
200 Motels
Director, Writer, Director of Photography
Performance.
Editor
All My Loving
Director
The Burning Fiery Furnace
Director, Writer
Benjamin Britten and His Festival
Director, Editor
Alice in Wonderland
Assistant Director