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.

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Personal Details

• Born: 1941-08-29 in London
• Known For: Directing

Tony Palmer Movies List

Looking for Tony Palmer movies? Here are some of their most popular films and where they rank in their career:

• The Piano Room (2013)
• Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused (2009)
• Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (2013)
• Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers (2014)
• The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1988)
• Richard Burton: Wild Genius (2025)
• All We Got Was Love (2021)
• The Making of 200 Motels (1971)
• Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul (2012)

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