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Tony Palmer

Directing

Born August 29, 1941 · London

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, Rory Gallagher and Frank Zappa, to his classical portraits which include profiles of Maria Callas, Margot Fonteyn, John Osborne, Igor Stravinsky, Richard Wagner, Yehudi Menuhin, Julian Lloyd Webber, Carl Orff, Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams. He is also a stage director of theatre and opera.

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Awards & recognition

  • Emmy Award
  • Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

Filmography27 titles

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

1999Director

Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74

1974Director

Menuhin, A Family Portrait

1991Director

Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka

2013Director

Callas: A Documentary

1978Director

The World of Liberace

1973Director, Editor

Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused

2009as Himself

Wagner

1983Director

Performance

1970Editor

All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music

1977Director, Writer

All My Loving

1968Director

In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton

1988Director

Ginger Baker: In Africa

1973Director, Editor

Cream: Farewell Concert

1969Director

Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire

2010Director, Writer

God Rot Tunbridge Wells!

1985Director

The Space Movie

1980Director, Writer

200 Motels

1971Director, Director of Photography, Writer

The Piano Room

2013

Code Name Vengeance

1987Writer

Mighty Good: The Beatles

1977Director

Vangelis: The Interviews

2016Director

Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard

2012Director

Margot

2005Director, Editor

Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming

2002Director, Editor

The World of Miss World

1974Director, Editor

Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?

1969Director