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Tony Palmer
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.
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As director
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
The Beatles And World War II
Vangelis: The Interviews
Britten: Nocturne
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Rope Ladder to the Moon
The Wagner Family
O, Fortuna!
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
Margot
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
The Kindness of Strangers
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
England, My England
Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Menuhin, A Family Portrait
Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
The Children
Testimony
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
As actor
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
All We Got Was Love
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
The Piano Room
Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
The Making of 200 Motels