# Tony Palmer

Tony Palmer (Londra, 29 agosto 1941) è un regista e scrittore britannico.

## Biografia

Ha diretto oltre 100 pellicole tra film e documentari, spettacoli teatrali e opere liriche. È inoltre noto per i suoi lavori con musicisti rock come The Beatles, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher e Frank Zappa (200 Motels), e per i documentari biografici su Maria Callas, Margot Fonteyn, John Osborne, Igor Stravinsky, Richard Wagner, Peter Sellers, Yehudi Menuhin, Julian Lloyd Webber, Carl Orff, Benjamin Britten e Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Ha vinto 12 medaglie d'oro del New York Film Festival oltre a numerosi premi BAFTA e Emmy Award. Palmer ha ricevuto anche due Prix Italia, per A Time There Was nel 1980 e At the Haunted End of the Day nel 1981.

## Filmografia

* The Art of Conducting (1966)
* Up the Theatre (1966)
* Conceit (1967)
* Benjamin Britten & his Festival (1967)
* Burning Fiery Furnace (1967)
* Corbusier (1967)
* Twice a Fortnight - serie TV (1967)
* All My Loving (1968)
* Cream's Farewell Concert (1968)
* Will the Real Mr. Sellers... Please Stand Up? (1969)
* How It Is (1969)
* Rope Ladder to the Moon (1969)
* Colosseum and Juicy Lucy (1970)
* Fairport Convention & Matthews Southern Comfort (1970)
* Glad All Over (1970)
* National Youth Theatre (1970)
* 200 Motels (1971)
* Brighton Breezy (1971)
* Mahler 9 (1971)
* Ginger Baker in Africa (1971)
* Birmingham (1971)
* The Pursuit of Happiness (1972)
* The World of Liberace (1972)
* The World of Hugh Hefner (1973)
* International Youth Orchestra (1973)
* Bird on a Wire (1974)
* Rory Gallagher – Irish Tour '74 (1974)
* The World of Miss World (1974)
* Tangerine Dream – live at Coventry Cathedral (1975)
* All You Need is Love - serie TV (1976–1980)
* The Wigan Casino (1977)
* Biddu (1977)
* The Edinburgh Festival (1977)
* The Mighty Wurlitzer (1978)
* The Edinburgh Festival Revisited (1978)
* The Space Movie - film TV (1979)
* Pride of Place [6 parti] (1979)
* A Time There Was (1979)
* First Edition (1980)
* At the Haunted End of the Day (1980)
* Once, at a Border... (1982)
* Wagner - film TV (1983)
* Primal Scream (1984)
* Puccini - film TV (1984)
* Mozart in Japan (1986)
* Testimony (1987)
* Maria Callas (1987)
* In From The Cold? (1988)
* Dvorak - In Love? (1988)
* Hindemith – a Pilgrim's Progress (1989)
* The Children (1990)
* Menuhin, a Family Story (1990)
* I, Berlioz(1992)
* Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (1993)
* A Short Film About Loving (1994)
* O Fortuna (1995)
* England, My England (1995)
* Brahms & The Little Singing Girls (1996)
* Michael Crawford (1996)
* Hail Bop – a profile of John Adams (1997)
* Parsifal (1997)
* The Harvest of Sorrow (1998)
* The Kindness of Strangers(1998)
* Valentina Igoshina plays Chopin (1999)
* The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka(1999)
* Foreign Aids (2001)
* Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming (2002)
* Hero – The Story of Bobby Moore (2002)
* Toward the Unknown Region(2003)
* John Osborne & The Gift of Friendship (2003)
* Ivry Gitlis & The Great Tradition (2004)
* The Adventures of Benjamin Schmid (2005)
* Margot (2005)
* The Salzburg Festival – A Brief History (2006)
* "O Thou Transcendent..." (2007)
* The Wagner Family (The South Bank Show) (2009)
* Holst – In the Bleak Midwinter (2011)
* Vangelis and the Journey to Ithaka (2013)
* Britten: Nocturne (2013)
* The Beatles and World War II (2016)
* Vangelis: The Interviews (2016)

## Libri

* Born Under a Bad Sign (1970)
* The Trials of Oz (1971)
* Electric Revolution (1971)
* The Things I Love (1976)
* All You Need Is Love (1976)
* Charles II: Portrait of an Age (1979)
* Julian Bream: A Life on the Road. (1982) ISBN 0-356-07880-9
* Menuhin: A Family Story (1991)