Tony Palmer
Known for
Directing
Born
August 29, 1941 (age 85)
Birthplace
London
Biography
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 o...
Best known work
Performance.
1970
200 Motels
1971
Alice in Wonderland
1966
Code Name Vengeance
1987
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
2010
Wagner
1983
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
2009
The Piano Room
2013
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74
1974
Testimony
1988Filmography
2025
Richard Burton: Wild Geniusas Self
2024
2021
All We Got Was Loveas Self
2017
The Beatles And World War IIDirector, Writer
2016
Vangelis: The InterviewsDirector
2014
2013
Britten: NocturneDirector, Editor
2013
2013
2013
Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shiningas Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
2012
2012
2011
Holst: In the Bleak MidwinterDirector
2010
Rope Ladder to the MoonDirector
2010
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a WireDirector, Writer
2009
The Wagner FamilyDirector
2009
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confusedas Himself
2008
O, Fortuna!Director
2007
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan WilliamsEditor, Director
2006
2006
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John AdamsDirector, Writer
2005
MargotDirector, Editor
2004
2002
Hero: The Bobby Moore StoryDirector
2002
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée FlemingDirector, Editor