
Person
Tony Palmer
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Aug 29, 1941
- From
- London
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.
Images
Credits

Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused

The Piano Room

The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

All We Got Was Love

The Making of 200 Motels

Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka

200 Motels

Ginger Baker: In Africa

The Kindness of Strangers

The Space Movie

Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74

Code Name Vengeance

Testimony

Margot