Director
Tony Palmer
85 years · London · 68 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 68
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025 · Self
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
2024 · Director
On Plex
All We Got Was Love
2021 · Self
The Beatles And World War II
2017 · Director, Writer
Vangelis: The Interviews
2016 · Director
On Plex
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
2014 · Self
On Hoopla
Britten: Nocturne
2013 · Editor, Director
Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka
2013 · Director
On Tubi TV
The Piano Room
2013 · Actor
Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
2013 · Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
2012 · Self
On The Roku Channel
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
2012 · Director
On Hoopla
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
2011 · Director
Rope Ladder to the Moon
2010 · Director
On Night Flight Plus
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
2010 · Director, Writer
The Wagner Family
2009 · Director
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
2009 · Himself
On Plex
O, Fortuna!
2008 · Director
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
2007 · Editor, Director
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
2006 · Director
On Tubi TV
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
2006 · Writer, Director
Margot
2005 · Director, Editor
On Marquee TV Amazon Channel
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
2004 · Director
On Tubi TV
Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
2002 · Director