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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: 67
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.
12 November 1967
Tony Palmer's documentary about the staging of Britten's choral work.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
20 September 1988
Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton.
01 November 1988
The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.
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 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.
01 January 1981
A documentary by Tony Palmer on English composer Sir William Walton (1902–1983), made shortly before his death.
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.
06 April 1985
The story of the last years of Handel.
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.
03 August 1970
In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation.
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.
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.
01 January 1995
The story of Henry Purcell.
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.
03 December 2013
Tony Palmer directs this documentary exploring the life and work of the celebrated English composer, conductor and pianist.
10 November 2025
The son of a Welsh miner, Richard Burton became a Hollywood star and is considered one of the greatest British actors ever.
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.
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".
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.
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.
03 October 2004
A documentary portrait of composer Malcolm Arnold. Broadcast in two parts on The South Bank Show butl
12 August 1991
Interviews, footage and photos profile violinist Yehudi Menuhin as prodigy, musician, husband, father and teacher.
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.
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.
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.
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
20 May 2013
An oral history story of the making of Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece "The Shining" focusing on new interviews with key crew members.
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. The film, after extensive re-editing from its initial version, opened in London in 1974.
03 July 1976
70s Butlins documentary, part of a series of films directed by Tony Palmer, which was announced in The Stage [The Stage, 25 July 1974, p.
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'.
23 December 1971
Directed by Roelof Kiers for Dutch television, this documentary follows Frank Zappa at home and during the making of 200 Motels.
05 January 1969
On November 26, 1968, London's illustrious Royal Albert Hall was jammed to its gilded rafters with rock fans ready for the final concert of what many still consider the greatest band that ever played.
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.
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.
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.
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.
03 December 2012
Keep on Burning tells the fascinating story of the world's most enduring underground music movement: Northern Soul.
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.
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.
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.
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.
09 January 1979
A portrait of one of England's greatest composers. Winner of the Prix Italia.
01 June 1970
Extracts from performances of two pop groups: The Colosseum and Juicy Lucy.
