Actor

Tony Garnett

Production

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Acting credits

Early stage

Smaller on-screen catalog so far.

TMDB popularity

0.9

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Movies: 43Series: 11Crew credits: 45

TMDB ID: 21841

IMDb ID: nm0307821

Known for: Production

Born: April 3, 1936

Died: January 12, 2020

Age: 83

Place of birth: Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1960 - 2019

Years active: 60

Average TMDB rating: 6.64

Wikidata: Q7822416

Other jobs

Producer (34)Executive Producer (5)Story Editor (3)Director (2)Screenplay (1)

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Biography

Tony Garnett is a British film and television producer, director and former actor. He is best known for his thirteen-year association with director Ken Loach, which started with The Wednesday Play and the groundbreaking Cathy Come Home amongst others, and continued into Play For Today and big screen features such as Kes. His other TV productions have included the controversial Law and Order and The Spongers and, with his company World Productions, Between the Lines, Ballykissangel, Cops, Cardiac Arrest and This Life. As a director, he helmed the films Prostitute and Handgun, and produced Hollywood movies such as Earth Girls are Easy and Sesame Street's Follow That Bird, and British cult LGBT classic Beautiful Thing. In 2016, he released his memoir, The Day the Music Died.

Movies

Movie credits linked with Tony Garnett.