TONY PALMER
DIRECTING
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.
- 200 Motels1971
- Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’741974
- Testimony1988
- All My Loving1968
- England, My England1995
- Puccini1984
- Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire2010
- Death in Venice1981
- Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter2011
- Parsifal: The Search for the Grail1998
- The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka1999
- The Wigan Casino1977
- Mighty Good: The Beatles1977
- Menuhin, A Family Portrait1991
- Britten: Nocturne2013
- Wagner1983