Tony Garnett

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Tony Garnett (born April 3, 1936 in Birmingham ; † January 12, 2020 ) was a British film and television producer and author .

life and career

Tony Garnett was orphaned when his mother died of an abortion and his father killed himself at the age of five. He then grew up with his uncle. In the 1950s he studied in London , where he soon began working as an actor in theater and television productions. In the mid-1960s, he switched from acting behind the camera and worked, among other things, for the television channel BBC . After all, Garnett worked as an independent producer of numerous feature films and television series until the 2000s. He mainly specialized in the production of socially critical dramas, which caused public controversy due to their provocative and politicized nature, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. The life of the British working class was illuminated in a documentary way in Garnett's productions , they were created in long-term collaboration with the director Ken Loach and the author Jim Allen . The best-known work of this collaboration is probably the classic film Kes .

In 1980 Garnett made his directorial debut with the drama Prostitute about an ambitious prostitute in London. In the 1980s he temporarily moved to the USA, where he turned to more commercial subjects such as the science fiction comedy Zebo, the Third from the Center of the Star , in which he also addressed social issues such as racism. In the 1990s he returned to Great Britain, where he co-founded the British television production company World Productions in 1991 . Most recently Garnett worked exclusively as a novelist. He died in January 2020 at the age of 83 after a brief illness.

Filmography (selection)

As a producer

  • 1968: The beautiful body of Deborah (Il dolce corpo di Deborah)
  • 1969: Kes (also screenplay)
  • 1979: Black Jack, the gallows bird (Black Jack)
  • 1980: Prostitute (also director)
  • 1983: Handgun - The Gun Fool ( Handgun ; also director and screenplay)
  • 1988: Zebo, the third from the center of the stars (Earth Girls Are Easy)
  • 1989: The Shadow Makers (Fat Man and Little Boy)
  • 1992–1994: Between the Lines (TV series, 34 episodes)
  • 1996: Beautiful Thing
  • 1996–1997: This Life (TV series, 32 episodes)
  • 1997: Hostile Waters - A Submarine Thriller ( Hostile Waters ; TV movie)
  • 2007: Rough Diamond (TV miniseries, 4 episodes)

As an actor

  • 1958: Incident at Echo Six (TV movie)
  • 1962: The Boys
  • 1963: Edgar Wallace: Dirty Competition (The Rivals)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dalya Alberge: Tony Garnett: 'BBC has little interest in poor people'. April 11, 2013, accessed August 15, 2018 .
  2. ^ BFI Screenonline: Garnett, Tony (1936-) Biography. Accessed August 19, 2018 (English).
  3. ^ The Museum of Broadcast Communications - Encyclopedia of Television - Garnett, Tony. Retrieved August 19, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Clea Skopeliti: Tony Garnett, TV and film producer, dies aged 83 . In: The Guardian . January 12, 2020, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed January 13, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Garnett, Tony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British film and television producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , UK
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 2020