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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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22 credits across 5 departments.
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining | Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition) | Film |
| 2009 | Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused | Himself | Film |
| 2005 | Margot | Director | Film |
| 1998 | Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow | Director | Film |
| 1990 | The Children | Director | Film |
| 1988 | The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels | Self | Film |
| 1988 | Testimony | Director | Film |
| 1988 | Testimony | Writer | Film |
| 1988 | Testimony | Producer | Film |
| 1987 | Code Name Vengeance | Writer | Film |
| 1980 | City in Fear | Film | |
| 1980 | The Space Movie | Director | Film |
| 1980 | The Space Movie | Writer | Film |
| 1979 | Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was… | Director | Film |
| 1978 | Callas: A Documentary | Director | Film |
| 1974 | Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74 | Director | Film |
| 1973 | Ginger Baker: In Africa | Director | Film |
| 1971 | 200 Motels | Director | Film |
| 1971 | 200 Motels | Writer | Film |
| 1969 | Cream: Farewell Concert | Director | Film |
| 1968 | All My Loving | Director | Film |
| 1967 | Benjamin Britten and His Festival | Director | Film |
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