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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, Rory Gallagher and Frank Zappa, 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.
Birth Name
Anthony Thomas Richard Palmer
Born
Friday, 29 August 1941
Acting Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Look Me Over: Liberace | Self | 2021 |
| Syd: The Dark Side of Music | Self | 2020 |
| The Beatles: Made on Merseyside | Self - Film Director | 2018 |
| Autopsy: The Last Hours of | Self - Film Director and Friend | 2014 |
| The Piano Room | German Buyer | 2013 |
| Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul | Self | 2012 |
| Beware of Mr. Baker | Self | 2012 |
| Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall | Self | 2011 |
| The South Bank Show Revisited | Self | 2010 |
| Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused | Himself / Self - Film Director | 2009 |
Acting Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Look Me Over: Liberace | Self | 2021 |
| Syd: The Dark Side of Music | Self | 2020 |
| The Beatles: Made on Merseyside | Self - Film Director | 2018 |
| Autopsy: The Last Hours of | Self - Film Director and Friend | 2014 |
| The Piano Room | German Buyer | 2013 |
| Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul | Self | 2012 |
| Beware of Mr. Baker | Self | 2012 |
| Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall | Self | 2011 |
| The South Bank Show Revisited | Self | 2010 |
| Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused | Himself / Self - Film Director | 2009 |
| Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures | Self | 2001 |
| The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels | Himself / Self | 1988 |
| Wagner | Conductor | 1983 |
| The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang | Stationmaster | 1979 |
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Vangelis: The Interviews | 2016 |
| Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire | 2010 |
| Valentina Igoshina Plays Chopin | 2010 |
| Fairport Convention: Maidstone 1970 | 2008 |
| The Salzburg Festival: A Brief History | 2006 |
| Margot | 2005 |
| Ruby's American Pie | 1999 |
| The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka: The Mystery of Chopin | 1999 |
| The Kindness of Strangers | 1998 |
| The Harvest of Sorrow | 1998 |
| England, My England | 1995 |
| The Children | 1990 |
| Testimony | 1988 |
| In from the cold? A portrait of Richard Burton | 1988 |
| American Masters | 1986 |
| God Rot Tunbridge Wells! | 1985 |
| Puccini | 1984 |
| Wagner | 1983 |
| Stravinsky: Once at a Border... | 1982 |
| Death In Venice | 1981 |
| The Space Movie | 1980 |
| Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was… | 1979 |
| Callas: A Documentary | 1978 |
| The South Bank Show | 1978 |
| All You Need Is Love | 1977 |
| Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour '74 | 1974 |
| Bird on a Wire | 1974 |
| The World of Miss World | 1974 |
| The World of Hugh M. Hefner | 1973 |
| The World of Liberace | 1972 |
| 200 Motels | 1971 |
| Great Performances | 1971 |
| Will the Real Mr Sellers.....? | 1969 |
| Twice a Fortnight | 1967 |
| Masterworks | 1966 |
Producer Filmography
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