Tony Palmer

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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Palmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Directed

1. 200 Motels (1971) — Director
2. Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire (2010) — Director
3. Wagner (1983) — Director
4. Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74 (1974) — Director
5. Testimony (1988) — Director
6. The Space Movie (1980) — Director
7. Puccini (1984) — Director
8. Death in Venice (1981) — Director
9. The Children (1990) — Director
10. Callas: A Documentary (1978) — Director
11. Cream: Farewell Concert (1969) — Director
12. All My Loving (1968) — Director
13. Mighty Good: The Beatles (1977) — Director
14. God Rot Tunbridge Wells! (1985) — Director
15. England, My England (1995) — Director
16. Hero: The Bobby Moore Story (2002) — Director
17. In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton (1988) — Director
18. All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music (1977) — Director
19. The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka (1999) — Director
20. Ginger Baker: In Africa (1973) — Director
21. Menuhin, A Family Portrait (1991) — Director
22. The World of Liberace (1973) — Director
23. The Burning Fiery Furnace (1967) — Director
24. Brahms and the Little Singing Girls (1996) — Director
25. Rope Ladder to the Moon (2010) — Director
26. Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal (1976) — Director
27. Colosseum and Juicy Lucy (1970) — Director
28. The Kindness of Strangers (1998) — Director
29. Margot (2005) — Director
30. The Wigan Casino (1977) — Director
31. Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was… (1979) — Director
32. Vangelis: The Interviews (2016) — Director
33. Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort (1972) — Director
34. Harriet At Butlins (1974) — Director
35. Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral (2006) — Director
36. Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (1993) — Director
37. Britten: Nocturne (2013) — Director
38. The Wagner Family (2009) — Director
39. O, Fortuna! (2008) — Director
40. Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress (1990) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Piano Room (2013)
2. Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused (2009) — Himself
3. The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1988) — Self
4. Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (2013) — Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
5. Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers (2014) — Self
6. Richard Burton: Wild Genius (2025) — Self
7. All We Got Was Love (2021) — Self
8. The Making of 200 Motels (1971) — Self
9. Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul (2012) — Self