Tony Garnett

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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.

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2020
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
Movie Self – Producer (archive footage, 1993)
2019
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
Movie Self
2016
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Movie Self - Friend and Producer
2010
Making Kes
Movie Self
2007
This Life +10
Movie Producer
2006
Carry On Ken
Movie
2003
Buried
TV show Executive Producer
2000
Attachments
TV show Executive Producer
1998
The Cops
TV show Executive Producer
1997
Hostile Waters
Movie Producer
1996
Beautiful Thing
Movie Producer
1996
This Life
TV show Executive Producer
1996
Ballykissangel
TV show Producer
1995
Sharman
TV show Executive Producer
1995
The Turnaround
Movie Executive Producer
1994
Cardiac Arrest
TV show Producer