Tony Palmer

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Tony Palmer

Tony Palmer (born August 29, 1941 in London ) is a British film director and writer. He worked in more than 60 films and worked early in the 1960s with artists such as the Beatles , Cream , Jimi Hendrix , and Frank Zappa . He later directed films and biographies about artists, composers and musicians such as B. Benjamin Britten , Maria Callas , Plácido Domingo , Violeta Urmana , Margot Fonteyn , Yehudi Menuhin , John Osborne , Sergei Rachmaninow , Dmitri Shostakovich , Igor Stravinsky , Richard Wagner and Ralph Vaughan Williams . He also directed the theater and opera. He has published several books.

The couple Tony and Michela Palmer have three children. Tony Palmer is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an honorary citizen of New Orleans and Athens .

Filmography

  • Isadora (as producer - Director: Ken Russell ) (1966)
  • Alice in Wonderland (as producer - director: Jonathan Miller) (1966)
  • The Art of Conducting - with Georg Solti (1966)
  • Up the Theater - with Judi Dench (1966)
  • Conceit (1967)
  • Benjamin Britten & his Festival (1967)
  • Burning Fiery Furnace (1967)
  • Corbusier (1967)
  • Twice a Fortnight - with Terry Jones & Michael Palin (1967)
  • All my loving . Documentation (1968)
  • Cream 'Farewell Concert' (1968)
  • The World of Peter Sellers (1969)
  • How It Is (1969)
  • Rope Ladder to the Moon - Jack Bruce (1969)
  • Fairport Convention & Colosseum (1970)
  • Glad All Over (1970)
  • National Youth Theater - Michael Croft (1970)
  • 200 Motels - Frank Zappa (1971)
  • Brighton Breezy (1971)
  • Mahler 9 - with Leonard Bernstein (1971)
  • Ginger Baker in Africa (1971)
  • Birmingham (1971)
  • The Pursuit of Happiness (1972)
  • Bird on a Wire with Leonard Cohen (1972)
  • The World of Liberace (1972)
  • The World of Hugh Hefner (1973)
  • International Youth Orchestra (1973)
  • Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour (1974)
  • The World of Miss World (1974)
  • Harriet at the Circus / Harriet at Sea / Harriet in a Balloon / Harriet at War / Harriet at the Opera / Harriet at Butlins (1974)
  • Tangerine Dream - live at Coventry Cathedral (1975)
  • All You Need is Love (1976-1980)
  • The Wigan Casino (1977)
  • Biddu (1977)
  • The Edinburgh Festival (1977)
  • The Mighty Wurlitzer (1978)
  • The Edinburgh Festival Revisited (1978)
  • The Space Movie - NASA's official 10th anniversary film, music by Mike Oldfield (1979)
  • Pride of Place (6 parts) (1979)
  • A Time There Was - Portrait of Benjamin Britten (1979)
  • First Edition (1980)
  • At the Haunted End of the Day - profile of William Walton (1980)
  • Death in Venice - Opera by Benjamin Britten (1981)
  • Once, at a Border ... - Portrait by Stravinsky (1982)
  • Wagner - The Life and Work of Richard Wagner - by Charles Wood (1983)
  • Primal Scream - Art Janov (1984)
  • Puccini - with Virginia McKenna & Robert Stephens (1984)
  • God Rot Tunbridge Wells - by John Osborne (1984/5)
  • Mozart in Japan - with Mitsuko Uchida (1986)
  • Testimony - starring Ben Kingsley (1987)
  • Maria Callas (1987)
  • In From The Cold? - Richard Burton (1988)
  • Dvořák in love? - Julian Lloyd Webber (1988)
  • Hindemith - a Pilgrim's Progress - with John Gielgud (1989)
  • The Children - starring Kim Novak, Ben Kingsley, Geraldine Chaplin (1989)
  • Menuhin, a Family Story (1990)
  • I, Berlioz - with Corin Redgrave (1992)
  • Symphony of Sorrowful Songs - Górecki (1993)
  • A Short Film About Loving - with Peter Sellars (1994)
  • O Fortuna - Carl Orff (1995)
  • England, my England - Henry Purcell (1995)
  • Brahms & The Little Singing Girls (1996)
  • Michael Crawford, a true story (1996)
  • Hail Bop - Portrait of John Adams (1997)
  • Parsifal - with Domingo, Urmana & Gergiev (1997)
  • Rachmaninoff - The Harvest of Sorrow (1998)
  • The Kindness of Strangers - André Previn (1998)
  • Valentina Igoshina plays Chopin (1999)
  • The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka - Chopin, with Penelope Wilton (1999)
  • Foreign Aids - Pieter-Dirk Uys on tour (2001)
  • Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming (2002)
  • Hero - The Story of Bobby Moore - Produced by David Frost (2002)
  • Toward the Unknown Region - Malcolm Arnold (2003)
  • John Osborne & The Gift of Friendship (2003)
  • Ivry Gitlis & The Great Tradition (2004)
  • The Adventures of Benjamin Schmid (2005)
  • Margot - Margot Fonteyn (2005)
  • The Salzburg Festival - A Brief History (2006)
  • "O Thou Transcendent ..." - The Life of Vaughan Williams (2007)
  • Fairport Convention: Maidstone 1970 (2008)
  • Nocturne - Britten (2013)

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personal data
SURNAME Palmer, Tony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British director and producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH London