Directed credits
54
Prolific
Very extensive directing filmography.
Director
Tony Palmer
Directing
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Directed movies: 52Directed series: 2All crew 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
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Palmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Tony Palmer.
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
Director
2024 Movie
The Beatles And World War II
Director
2017 Movie
Vangelis: The Interviews
Director
2016 Movie
Britten: Nocturne
Director
2013 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
O, Fortuna!
Director
2008 Movie
10.0
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
Director
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
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
Director
1998 Movie
The Kindness of Strangers
Director
1998 Movie
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
Director
1998 Movie
The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
Director
1996 Movie
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
Director
1996 Movie
5.0
England, My England
Director
1995 Movie
Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Director
1993 Movie
Menuhin, A Family Portrait
Director
1991 Movie
Series
Directed Series
Series directed by Tony Palmer.
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Highest rated movies linked with Tony Palmer.
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7.0
Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
Director
1976 Movie
6.7
Performance
Editor
1970 Movie
4.4
Code Name: Vengeance
Writer
1987 Movie
5.2
200 Motels
Director
1971 Movie
5.2
Cream – Farewell Concert
Director
1969 Movie
3.8
The Children
Director
1990 Movie
6.0
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Director
1988 Movie
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
Director
1969 Movie
3.8
The Space Movie
Director
1980 Movie
5.0
The Piano Room
2013 Movie
7.0
Callas: A Documentary
Director
1978 Movie
7.5
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
as Self
2025 Movie
Series
Most Popular Series
Most viewed series linked with Tony Palmer.
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Tony Palmer.
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Tony Palmer.
7.5
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
as Self
2025 Movie
All We Got Was Love
as Self
2021 Movie
8.0
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
as Self
2014 Movie
5.0
The Piano Room
2013 Movie
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
as Self
2012 Movie
6.8
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
as Himself
2009 Movie
7.5
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
as Self
1988 Movie