Tony Palmer

Tony Palmer ( b. 1941 ) is a British film director and writer. He participated in more than 60 films and worked early in the 1960s with artists like the Beatles, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa or together. Later he directed films and biopics about artists, composers and musicians such as Benjamin Britten, Maria Callas, Margot Fonteyn, Yehudi Menuhin, John Osborne, Sergei Rachmaninov, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, Richard Wagner and Ralph Vaughan Williams. Also in the theater and to the opera he directed. He has published several books.

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 )
  • Conceit (1967 )
  • Benjamin Britten & his Festival ( 1967)
  • Burning Fiery Furnace (1967 )
  • Corbusier (1967 )
  • Twice a Fortnight - 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 )
  • 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 )
  • 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 movie, music by Mike Oldfield (1979 )
  • Pride of Place ( 6 parts) (1979 )
  • A Time There Was - Portrait of Benjamin Britten (1979 )
  • First Edition (1980 )
  • Death in Venice - Opera by Benjamin Britten (1981 )
  • Once, at a Border ... - Portrait of Stravinsky (1982 )
  • 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 - Mitsuko Uchida with (1986 )
  • Testimony - with Ben Kingsley in the title role (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 - with Kim Novak in the lead role, Ben Kingsley, Geraldine Chaplin (1989 )
  • Menuhin, a Family Story (1990 )
  • I, Berlioz - Corin Redgrave with (1992 )
  • Symphony of Sorrowful Songs - Gorecki (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 & Gergiev (1997)
  • The Harvest of Sorrow - Rachmaninoff, with the Kirov Opera ( 1998)
  • The Kindness of Strangers - Andre 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 )

Writings

  • The Trials of Oz in 1971.
  • Electric Revolution. In 1971.
  • The Things I Love - Liberace. In 1976.
  • All You Need Is Love. In 1976.
  • Charles II - Portrait of an Age. In 1979.
  • Life on the Road - Julian Bream biography. In 1982.
  • Menuhin - A Family Story. In 1991.
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