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