Directed credits
2
Emerging
Beginning to build directing work.
Director
Tony Garnett
Production
Career Snapshot
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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 46
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 - 2020
Years active: 61
Average TMDB rating: 6.64
Wikidata: Q7822416
Frequent jobs
Director (2)Producer (35)Executive Producer (5)Story Editor (3)Screenplay (1)
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
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Tony Garnett.
Movies
Top Rated Movies
Highest rated movies linked with Tony Garnett.
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Tony Garnett.
Producer
Earth Girls Are Easy
1988 • Movie
Screenplay
Kes
1970 • Movie
Producer
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989 • Movie
Producer
Old Chums
1982 • Movie
Producer
The Sweet Body of Deborah
1968 • Movie
Producer
This Life +10
2007 • Movie
Producer
Hostile Waters
1997 • Movie
Producer
Follow That Bird
1985 • Movie
Producer
Beautiful Thing
1996 • Movie
Producer
Drums Along The Avon
1967 • Movie
Producer
Black Jack
1979 • Movie
Producer
Cathy Come Home
1966 • Movie
Series
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Tony Garnett.
Producer • 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
1965 • Series
Producer • 57 eps
Ballykissangel
1996 • Series
Producer • 35 eps
Between the Lines
1992 • Series
1 eps
World in Action
1963 • Series
Producer • 27 eps
Cardiac Arrest
1994 • Series
Executive Producer • 32 eps
This Life
1996 • Series
Executive Producer • 24 eps
The Cops
1998 • Series
4 eps
An Age of Kings
1960 • Series
Executive Producer • 8 eps
Buried
2003 • Series
Producer • 4 eps
Days of Hope
1975 • Series
Executive Producer • 5 eps
Sharman
1995 • Series
Producer • 4 eps
Law & Order
1978 • Series
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Tony Garnett.
Producer
This Life +10
2007 • Movie
Producer
Hostile Waters
1997 • Movie
Producer
Beautiful Thing
1996 • Movie
Executive Producer
The Turnaround
1995 • Movie
Producer
Born Kicking
1992 • Movie
Producer
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989 • Movie
Producer
Earth Girls Are Easy
1988 • Movie
Producer
Follow That Bird
1985 • Movie
Producer
Afternoon
1982 • Movie
Producer
Probation
1982 • Movie
Producer
Old Chums
1982 • Movie
Producer
The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup Final
1982 • Movie
Producer
Black Jack
1979 • Movie
Producer
The Spongers
1978 • Movie
Producer
The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality
1977 • Movie
Producer
The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People
1977 • Movie
Series
Other Crew Work in Series
Additional series credits for Tony Garnett.
Executive Producer • 8 eps
Buried
2003 • Series
Executive Producer • 24 eps
The Cops
1998 • Series
Executive Producer • 32 eps
This Life
1996 • Series
Producer • 57 eps
Ballykissangel
1996 • Series
Executive Producer • 5 eps
Sharman
1995 • Series
Producer • 27 eps
Cardiac Arrest
1994 • Series
Producer • 35 eps
Between the Lines
1992 • Series
Producer • 4 eps
Law & Order
1978 • Series
Producer • 4 eps
Days of Hope
1975 • Series
Producer • 1 eps
BBC Play of the Month
1965 • Series
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Tony Garnett.
as Self – Producer (archive footage, 1993)
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
2020 • Movie
as Self
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
2019 • Movie
as Self - Friend and Producer
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2016 • Movie
as Self
Making Kes
2010 • Movie
Carry On Ken
2006 • Movie
Right to Work March
1972 • Movie
as Jimmy Vosler
The Rivals
1963 • Movie
as Brennan
Incident at Midnight
1963 • Movie
as James Alan "Ginger" Thompson
The Boys
1962 • Movie
Series
Acting Appearances in Series
Series cast credits for Tony Garnett.