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Tony Garnett

Producer, Writer, Actor, Director, Additional Credits
Born April 3, 1936Died 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
  • Follow That Bird

Known For

  • Kes
  • Beautiful Thing
  • Earth Girls Are Easy
  • Follow That Bird
  • Fat Man and Little Boy
  • Family Life
  • Ballykissangel
  • This Life
  • Black Jack
  • Between the Lines
  • Deep in the Heart
  • Lilies
  • Cardiac Arrest
  • The Body
  • Law and Order (1978)
  • Prostitute
  • The Cops
  • The Boys
  • Five-Minute Films
  • Buried (2003)

Tony Garnett Filmography

2007
Lilies (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2007
2006
Rough Diamond (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2003
Buried (2003) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2001
First Years (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
2001
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
Between the Lines (TV Series)
1989
The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand De Bargos (TV Series) · as Executive Producer
1989
1988
1985
Screen One (TV Series)
1985
1983
1982
1982
1982
1982
1982
1980
1979
1978
1977
1975
Five-Minute Films (TV Series)
1975
Days of Hope (TV Series)
1973
1971
1970
1970
Play for Today (TV Series)
1969
1969
1968
1965
1965
Play of the Month (TV Series)
1964
The Wednesday Play (TV Series)

2006
1972
1963
Teletales (TV Series) · as Richard
1963
The Rivals · as Jimmy Vosler
1963
Incident at Midnight · as Brennan
1962
The Boys · as James Alan "ginger" Thompson
1962
Z Cars (TV Series) · as Jack Nichol
1961
Drama 61-67 (TV Series) · as Joe
1960
An Age of Kings (TV Series) · as Vernon
1960
BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) · as Claude
1959
Probation Officer (TV Series) · as Albert Drummond
1959
The Edgar Wallace Mysteries (TV Series) · as Brennan
1957
Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) · as Ronald Jackson
1955
ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) · as Norman Evans
1955
Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) · as Tony Brown

2019
2016
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach · as Self - Friend And Producer
2007
British Film Forever (TV Series) · as Self
2004
The Culture Show (TV Series) · as Self
2004
2002
Timeshift (TV Series) · as Self
1978
The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Self
1975
Arena (1975) (TV Series) · as Self
1963
World in Action (TV Series) · as Self - Independent Producer

1965
Up the Junction · as Story Editor

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