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Tony Palmer

Editor, Director, Producer, Writer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn August 29, 1941 (84 years)
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.

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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Bird on a Wire
  • The Space Movie
  • In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
  • Callas: A Documentary
  • Vangelis: The Interviews

Known For

  • 200 Motels
  • Wagner
  • Bird on a Wire
  • All This and World War II
  • Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
  • Code Name Vengeance
  • The Space Movie
  • All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
  • Vangelis and the Journey to Ithaka
  • The Harvest of Sorrow
  • Death in Venice
  • Stravinsky: Once at a Border...
  • Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
  • In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
  • Callas: A Documentary

Tony Palmer Filmography

2017
2016
2013
2010
2006
2005
2005
2004
1999
1999
1998
1996
1995
1991
1990
1988
1988
1988
1987
1985
American Masters (TV Series)
1985
1984
1983
Wagner (TV Series)
1982
1981
1981
1979
1978
1978
1978
1977
1977
1976
1976
1976
1974
1974
1974
1974
1973
1973
1972
1971
1971
Great Performances (TV Series)
1971
1969
1968
1967
Omnibus (1967) (TV Series)
1959

2013
1983
Wagner (TV Series) · as Conductor
1979

2021
Penitent · as Supervising Producer
1987
Testimony · as Production Design
1980
From Here to Eternity (TV Series) · as Written By
1971
200 Motels · as Director Of Photography

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