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Tony Garnett

Producer, Writer, Actor, Director
Died January 12, 2020 (83 years)
Tony Garnett is a British film and television producer, director and former actor. He is best known for his thirteen-year association with director Ken Loach, which started with The Wednesday Play and the groundbreaking Cathy Come Home amongst others, and continued into Play For Today and big screen features such as Kes. His other TV productions have included the controversial Law and Order and The Spongers and, with his company World Productions, Between the Lines, Ballykissangel, Cops, Cardiac Arrest and This Life. As a director, he helmed the films Prostitute and Handgun, and produced Hollywood movies such as Earth Girls are Easy and Sesame Street's Follow That Bird, and British cult LGBT classic Beautiful Thing. In 2016, he released his memoir, The Day the Music Died.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Earth Girls Are Easy
  • Between The Lines
Known For
  • Kes
  • Beautiful Thing
  • Earth Girls Are Easy
  • Follow That Bird
  • Fat Man and Little Boy
  • Ballykissangel
  • This Life
  • Black Jack
  • Family Life
  • Deep in the Heart
  • Between The Lines
  • Lilies
  • Cardiac Arrest
  • The Body
  • Prostitute
  • Law and Order (1978)
  • Attachments
  • The Boys
  • Five-Minute Films
  • The Cops
  • Rough Diamond
  • Play for Today
  • Sharman

Filmography

2007
Lilies (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2007
2006
Rough Diamond (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2000
Attachments (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1998
The Cops (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1997
1996
Sharman (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1996
1996
This Life (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1996
Ballykissangel (TV Series)
1995
The Turnaround · as Executive Producer
1994
Cardiac Arrest (TV Series)
1992
1989
1988
1985
Screen One (TV Series)
1985
1983
1982
1982
1982
1982
1982
1980
1979
1978
1977
1977
1977
1975
Five-Minute Films (TV Series)
1975
Days of Hope (TV Series)
1973
1971
1970
1970
Play for Today (TV Series)
1969
1969
1969
1968
1967
1965
1965
Play of the Month (TV Series)
1964
The Wednesday Play (TV Series)

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