Tony Palmer
Directing • AGE 84
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 port...
Filmography
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
Self
2025
Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts
Director
2024
All We Got Was Love
Self
2021
The Beatles And World War II
Director
2017
Vangelis: The Interviews
Director
2016
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
Self
2014
Britten: Nocturne
Director
2013
The Piano Room
2013
Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
2013
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
Self
2012
Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard
Director
2012
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
Director
2011
Rope Ladder to the Moon
Director
2010
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Director
2010
The Wagner Family
Director
2009
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
Himself
2009
O, Fortuna!
Director
2008
O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Editor
2007
Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral
Director
2006
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
Writer
2006
Margot
Director
2005
Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival
Director
2004
Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
Director
2002
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming
Director
2002
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
Director
1999
Parsifal: The Search for the Grail
Director
1998
The Kindness of Strangers
Director
1998
Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow
Director
1998
The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford
Director
1996
Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
Director
1996
England, My England
Director
1995
Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs
Director
1993
Menuhin, A Family Portrait
Director
1991
The Children
Director
1990
Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress
Director
1990
Testimony
Director
1988
In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton
Director
1988
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
Self
1988
Code Name Vengeance
Writer
1987
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
Director
1985
Puccini
Director
1984
Wagner
Director
1983
Stravinsky: Once at a Border...
Director
1982
Death in Venice
Editor
1981
At the Haunted End of the Day
Director
1981
The Space Movie
Director
1980
Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was…
Director
1979
Callas: A Documentary
Director
1978
The Wigan Casino
Director
1977
Mighty Good: The Beatles
Director
1977
All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music
Director
1977
Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal
Director
1976
Harriet at Play
Director
1976
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74
Director
1974
The World of Miss World
Editor
1974
Harriet At Butlins
Director
1974
The World of Liberace
Director
1973
Ginger Baker: In Africa
Director
1973
The World of Hugh Hefner
Director
1973
Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort
Director
1972
The Making of 200 Motels
Self
1971
200 Motels
Director
1971
Performance.
Editor
1970
Colosseum and Juicy Lucy
Director
1970
Will the Real Mr Sellers.....?
Director
1969
Cream: Farewell Concert
Director
1969
All My Loving
Director
1968
Benjamin Britten and His Festival
Director
1967
The Burning Fiery Furnace
Director
1967
Alice in Wonderland
Assistant Director
1966