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Tony Palmer
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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),…
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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.
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2025
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
Movie Self
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2024
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
Movie Director
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2021
All We Got Was Love
Movie Self
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2017
The Beatles And World War II
Movie Director
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2016
Vangelis: The Interviews
Movie Director
- 2014
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2013
Britten: Nocturne
Movie Director
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2013
Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka
Movie Director
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2013
The Piano Room
Movie
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2013
Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
Movie Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
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2012
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
Movie Self
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2012
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Movie Director
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2011
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
Movie Director
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2010
Rope Ladder to the Moon
Movie Director
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2010
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Movie Director
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2009
The Wagner Family
Movie Director
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2009
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
Movie Himself
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2008
O, Fortuna!
Movie Director
- 2007
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2006
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
Movie Director
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2006
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
Movie Director
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2005
Margot
Movie Director
- 2004
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2002
Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
Movie Director
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2002
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
Movie Director
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1999
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Movie Director
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1998
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
Movie Director
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1998
The Kindness of Strangers
Movie Director
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1998
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
Movie Director
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1996
The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
Movie Director
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1996
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
Movie Director
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1995
England, My England
Movie Director
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1993
Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Movie Director
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1991
Menuhin, A Family Portrait
Movie Director
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1990
The Children
Movie Director
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1990
Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
Movie Director
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1988
Testimony
Movie Director
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1988
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Movie Director
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1988
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
Movie Self
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1987
Code Name Vengeance
Movie Writer
