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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.
Most Popular Tony Palmer Trailers
Total trailers found: 61
10 November 1971
"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring.
03 August 1970
In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation.
28 May 2012
Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novelist, and director who exposed the horrors of South Africa's apartheid system for the entire world to see.
01 January 1988
A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank's personal archives plus behind-the-scenes of the actual shooting and recording.
12 November 1967
Tony Palmer's documentary about the staging of Britten's choral work.
15 September 2013
A run-down hotel room, a piano, a maid and the guests who stay there. Life begins, life ends, and lives are changed forever in the piano room.
25 October 1974
Irish Tour '74 is a film which captures the artist, his music, the period and the place with perfection.
18 May 1990
Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new relationship.
01 December 1987
Soldier of fortune, Monroe Bieler, is sent to dole out some American-style justice when the wife and child of an African president are kidnapped by terrorists.
01 January 1999
In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the government claiming to have some love letters from the composer to her great-grandmother, the Countess Delfina Potocka.
22 May 1972
Directed by renowned British film director Tony Palmer, this film captures the band at the Maidstone Fiesta during the summer of 1970 as they run through their set of the time.
11 August 1981
Gustav Von Aschenbach, a passionate composer, arrives in Venice as a result of wanderlust and there meets a young man by whose beauty he becomes obsessed.
01 January 1981
A documentary by Tony Palmer on English composer Sir William Walton (1902–1983), made shortly before his death.
20 September 1988
Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton.
25 March 2002
A celebratory look at the life of football legend Bobby Moore.
01 October 2014
After disbanding the original Mothers of Invention in '69, Frank Zappa unleashed a second incarnation of the band by '70.
15 July 1973
In November 1971, Ginger Baker, the legendary drummer of Cream and Blind Faith, decided to set up a recording studio in Lagos, then the capital of Nigeria.
11 January 2005
A biographical look at the career of the acclaimed Margot Fonteyn. As a little girl called Peggy Hookham growing up in Shanghai, she told her mother she would one day become the greatest dancer in the world.
31 December 2007
Award-winning filmmaker Tony Palmer directs this riveting documentary on the life and times of influential English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
01 January 1984
In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their maid, Doria Manfredi, a young women from town.
14 September 2009
There's no doubt that Richard Wagner who built it was the most influential composer in the whole of the 19th Century.
08 July 1976
"Four Ways to Say Farewell" is a personal introduction to Mahler and his Ninth Symphony, during which Leonard Bernstein is seen and heard rehearsing the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
01 November 1988
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
01 January 2006
A short concert film for television which blends edited footage from a 1975 Tangerine Dream concert with music from the group's "Ricochet" album released that same year.
01 January 1982
This autobiographical film about the most important and influential composer of the 20th century includes documents, photographs and film never seen publicly before.
03 November 1968
Originally a BBC documentary, this film by Tony Palmer about the 1960's music scene was later releasI
01 January 2008
Tony Palmer examines the life and legacy of the German composer, Carl Orff.
04 April 1993
This emotional film by the award-winning director Tony Palmer includes a performance of the “Third Symphony” by The London Sinfonietta alongside powerful footage of Górecki at Auschwitz and Birkenau.
01 January 1996
This is Palmer's highly controversial portrait of Brahms - a film that exploded the familiar image of 'stodgy old bearded Brahms' - a man whose first musical experience had been playing an upright piano in the brothels of Hamburg where he had grown up, and who at the end of his life lived a bachelor in Vienna having his every need satisfied by the prostitutes of the city whom he always affectionately described as his ‘little singing girls'.
01 January 1995
The story of Henry Purcell.
03 December 2013
Tony Palmer directs this documentary exploring the life and work of the celebrated English composer, conductor and pianist.
16 September 1978
Narrated by cinema legend Franco Zeffirelli, this intimate made-for-television documentary traces the life and times of the mercurial Maria Callas, one of the most renowned and respected operatic divas of the mid-20th century.
01 September 2009
A rare look at Led Zeppelin, from their humble beginnings to their status as rock gods. The unique chemistry between singer Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, bassist John Paul Jones & drummer John Bonham led to tensions within the band, but were essential to their success.
01 January 1974
Director Tony Palmer exposes the harsh underbelly of the famed Miss World beauty contest, going beneath the glamour to reveal a hotbed of bullying, and sexism.
08 July 1998
Richard Wagner's operatic retelling of the story of the search for the Holy Grail receives a lavish production in this video, which records performances held in Bayreuth, St.
01 January 1985
The story of the last years of Handel.
14 May 1977
No musical group has had as profound an impact on pop music as The Beatles. Tony Palmer's groundbreaking documentary gives us an intimate look at one of the most influential groups in musical history.
27 August 1973
In 1976 the pianist, entertainer and one of the biggest stars of the day, published a coffee table book about his collection of homes, jewellery and costumes called The Things I Love.
12 April 2011
The great composer of The Planets, Gustav Holst also taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert, and allied himself during the First World War with a ‘red priest' who pinned on the door of his church "prayers at noon for the victims of Imperial Aggression".
01 September 2016
A collection of unedited interviews with Vangelis recorded for the film Vangelis and The Journey To Ithaca in September 2008, which was subsequently finished without Tony Palmer.
14 April 1990
Tony Palmer’s study of the German composer Paul Hindemith.
21 September 2010
Tony Palmer directs this 1970 documentary about Scottish bass player and former Cream member Jack Bruce.
01 July 1998
The life of composer, conductor, pianist and Oscar-winner Andre Previn, filmed during a year which culminated in the world premiere of his first opera, A Streetcar Named Desire, in San Francisco.
03 October 2004
A documentary portrait of composer Malcolm Arnold. Broadcast in two parts on The South Bank Show butl
03 February 2002
Explores the life and career of American soprano Renée Fleming. Share an intimate visit with Renée behind the scenes, at home and on stage as she rehearses and performs in Verdi’s Otello and Requiem, and sings Strauss, Mozart, Dvorák, Korngold, Ellington, Gershwin, Puccini, Massenet, and Rachmaninoff.
03 May 2017
War footage meets the Bee Gees, Elton John, Tina Turner, Peter Gabriel, Bryan Ferry and others as they belt out new arrangements of Beatles songs.
01 January 2006
Shot over the course of a year, this intimate portrait of provocative composer John Adams presents scenes of the artist at work and at play against the backdrop of dramatic American landscapes that reflect the themes of his music.
01 January 1974
Documentary about Butlins
11 November 1996
Though perhaps best known for his star turn in Broadway's "The Phantom of the Opera," Michael Crawford has more than 30 years' worth of credits to his name.
20 July 2021
Tony Palmer appeared at Harrogate Film Festival on 12 March 2020 as part of a celebration of his work which included a screening of Mighty Good, his television documentary about the Beatles era.
22 November 1967
A behind-the-scenes look at the Aldeburgh Festival and the opening by The Queen of the new concert hall at Snape.
12 August 1991
Interviews, footage and photos profile violinist Yehudi Menuhin as prodigy, musician, husband, father and teacher.
23 December 1971
Making of "200 Motels".
12 December 1977
Documentary covering the famous Wigan Casino northern soul venue and the working class kids who spend all their money not on alcohol but on records and dancing all night.
01 August 2010
Celebrated filmmaker Tony Palmer follows Leonard Cohen on his 1972 European tour.
17 November 1980
1969's Apollo 11 mission to the moon is highlighted in this tribute to the history of the United States' space program.
03 December 2012
Keep on Burning tells the fascinating story of the world's most enduring underground music movement: Northern Soul.
18 December 1969
Banned by the BBC in 1971, director Tony Palmer's profile of the late Peter Sellers was, in the words of the film's subject himself, "the only portrait which really understood me.
01 January 1998
Tony Palmer tells the life story of Sergei Rachmaninoff through the use of home movies, concert footage, and interviews.
09 January 1979
A portrait of one of England's greatest composers. Winner of the Prix Italia.
