Tony Palmer
Directing
Date of birth:London
Gender:Male
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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.
Filmography
Rating by year
- Richard Burton: Wild GeniusSelf2025-11-107.52
- All We Got Was LoveSelf2021-07-200.00
- Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another MothersSelf2014-10-018.02
- The Piano Room2013-09-155.07
- Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The ShiningHimself - interviewee (2026 special edition)2013-05-208.03
- Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern SoulSelf2012-12-030.00
- Led Zeppelin: Dazed & ConfusedHimself2009-09-016.85
- The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 MotelsSelf1988-01-017.33
- The Making of 200 MotelsSelf1971-12-230.00