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Tony Palmer

Personal Information

Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birth DateAug 29, 1941 (85 years old)
Zodiac Sign♍Virgo
Place of BirthLondon
Career Span1966 – Present (61 yrs)
Known Credits71 Titles
Official Links
DirectingPopularity Score 0.9

Tony Palmer

Total Works

71

69 movies • 2 shows

Avg Rating

6 / 10

across rated releases

Box Office

—

worldwide gross

Global Reach

#1

TMDB star index

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.

Signature Roles & Milestones

Performance.
6.8
Performance.
1970•movie
Role: Editor
Alice in Wonderland
6.0
Role: Assistant Director

Full Filmography & Credits

Showing 71 titles featuring Tony Palmer

Performance.
6.8
Performance.
1970•movie

Role: Editor

200 Motels
5.1
200 Motels
1971•movie

Role: Director

Alice in Wonderland
6.0

Role: Assistant Director

Code Name Vengeance
4.9

Role: Writer

Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
5.6

Role: Director

Wagner
6.8
Wagner
1983•series

Role: Director

Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
7.3

as Himself

The Piano Room
5.0
The Piano Room
2013•movie
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74
8.8

Role: Director

Testimony
5.6
Testimony
1988•movie

Role: Director

The Space Movie
5.4
The Space Movie
1980•movie

Role: Director

Puccini
4.2
Puccini
1984•movie

Role: Director

Death in Venice
3.9
Death in Venice
1981•movie

Role: Editor

Cream: Farewell Concert
6.6

Role: Director

The Children
4.9
The Children
1990•movie

Role: Director

Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
8.0

as Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)

Mighty Good: The Beatles
5.0

Role: Director

Callas: A Documentary
7.0

Role: Director

Richard Burton: Wild Genius
7.5

as Self

All My Loving
6.5
All My Loving
1968•movie

Role: Director

God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
5.5

Role: Director

England, My England
6.5

Role: Director

Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
8.0

Role: Director

Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka
7.5

Role: Director

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
10.0

Role: Director

Ginger Baker: In Africa
6.0

Role: Director

Menuhin, A Family Portrait
8.0

Role: Director

The World of Liberace
7.0

Role: Director

The Burning Fiery Furnace
9.0

Role: Director

Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
1.0

Role: Director

Rope Ladder to the Moon
10.0

Role: Director

Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
7.0

Role: Director

Colosseum and Juicy Lucy
10.0

Role: Director

All We Got Was Love

as Self

The Making of 200 Motels

as Self

The Kindness of Strangers

Role: Director

Margot
Margot
2005•movie

Role: Director

The Wigan Casino
The Wigan Casino
1977•movie

Role: Director

Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…

Role: Director

Vangelis: The Interviews

Role: Director

The World of Miss World

Role: Editor

Harriet At Butlins
Harriet At Butlins
1974•movie

Role: Director

Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
10.0

Role: Director

Britten: Nocturne
Britten: Nocturne
2013•movie

Role: Director

The Wagner Family
The Wagner Family
2009•movie

Role: Director

O, Fortuna!
O, Fortuna!
2008•movie

Role: Director

Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress

Role: Director

The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford

Role: Director

The Beatles And World War II

Role: Director

Benjamin Britten and His Festival

Role: Director

The World of Hugh Hefner

Role: Director

Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming

Role: Director

Stravinsky: Once at a Border...

Role: Director

At the Haunted End of the Day

Role: Director

Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?

Role: Director

Parsifal: The Search for the Grail

Role: Director

Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter

Role: Director

Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow

Role: Director

Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams

Role: Director

Harriet at Play
Harriet at Play
1976•movie

Role: Director