Acting credits
7
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
Tony Palmer
Directing
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 65Series: 2Crew credits: 60
TMDB ID: 98538
IMDb ID: nm0658482
Known for: Directing
Born: August 29, 1941
Age: 84
Place of birth: London
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1967 - 2025
Years active: 59
Average TMDB rating: 5.95
Wikidata: Q454618
Other jobs
Director (54)Editor (4)Writer (2)
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 of the Royal Geographical Society, and an honorary citizen of both New Orleans and Athens.
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Tony Palmer.
7.5
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
as Self
2025 Movie
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
Director
2024 Movie
All We Got Was Love
as Self
2021 Movie
The Beatles And World War II
Director
2017 Movie
Vangelis: The Interviews
Director
2016 Movie
8.0
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
as Self
2014 Movie
Britten: Nocturne
Director
2013 Movie
5.0
The Piano Room
2013 Movie
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
as Self
2012 Movie
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Director
2012 Movie
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
Director
2011 Movie
10.0
Rope Ladder to the Moon
Director
2010 Movie
5.2
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Director
2010 Movie
The Wagner Family
Director
2009 Movie
6.8
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
as Himself
2009 Movie
O, Fortuna!
Director
2008 Movie
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Editor
2007 Movie
10.0
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
Director
2006 Movie
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
Writer
2006 Movie
Margot
Director
2005 Movie
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
Director
2004 Movie
8.0
Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
Director
2002 Movie
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
Director
2002 Movie
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Director
1999 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Tony Palmer.
