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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KNOWN FOR
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
1998
Wagner
1983
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
1977
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025
Performance.
1970
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
2009
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
1969
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
1999
Testimony
1988
Colosseum and Juicy Lucy
1970
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
1988
FILMOGRAPHY
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Movies
TV
Acting
9
Directing
60
Writing
10
Producing
1
Camera
1
Editing
11
Art
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