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Tony Palmer (born 29 August 1941 in London) is a British film director and author. His work includes over 100 films, ranging from early works with The Beatles, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher (Irish Tour '74) 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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Filmography

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List of opera and theatre works

Books

  • Born Under a Bad Sign (1970)
  • The Trials of Oz (1971)
  • Electric Revolution (1971)
  • The Things I Love – Liberace (1976)
  • All You Need Is Love (1976)
  • Charles II: Portrait of an Age (1979)
  • Julian Bream: A Life on the Road. London: Macdonald, 1982. Template:ISBN. Text by Palmer, photographs by Daniel Meadows.
  • Menuhin: A Family Story (1991)

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200 Motels, All This and World War II, All You Need Is Love, All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music, André Previn, Anthony Palmer (disambiguation), Benjamin Britten, Bessie Smith, Carl Orff, Charles Wood (playwright), Christopher Palmer, Colosseum and Juicy Lucy, Daniel Meadows, Death in Venice (opera), Déjàvu, Dvořák - In Love?, Earls Court 1975, Edith Wharton, England, My England, Fairport Convention, Farewell Concert, Feliks Topolski, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, Frank Zappa, Geoffrey Cannon, Geraldine Chaplin, Gidi Avivi, Ginger Baker, God Rot Tunbridge Wells!, Gottfried Wagner, Guy Henry (actor), Howard Shelley, Incantations (album), Irish Tour '74 (film), Ivry Gitlis, Jack Bruce, John Gielgud, Julian Bream, Kim Novak, László Gálffi, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire, Live Songs, Live! (Fela Kuti album), Margaret Fingerhut, Margot Fonteyn, Maria Callas, Mark Leckey, Mark Thompson (media executive), Marthe Keller, Matthews Southern Comfort, Maurice Cowling, Mike Oldfield discography, Music journalism, Ommadawn, Only a Northern Song, Ormiston Denes Academy, Oz (magazine), Palmer (surname), Parsifal, Peter Shaw (producer, born 1942), Portsmouth (instrumental), Prix Italia, Ralph Richardson, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Robert Gard (tenor), Rory Gallagher, Songs of Love and Hate, Sound Venture, Stephen Oliver (composer), Stomu Yamashta, Susana, Lady Walton, Testimony (1988 film), Testimony (Volkov book), The Beatles (album), The Children (1990 film), The Elstree Project, The Lark Ascending (Vaughan Williams), The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang, The Marlowe Society, The Mothers of Invention, The South Bank Show, The Space Movie, The Spectator, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Twice a Fortnight, Václav Neumann, Valentina Igoshina, Vittorio Storaro filmography, Wagner (film), Wendy Ellis Somes, Wieland Wagner, William Walton, Wilma Lipp, Work song, Yellow Submarine (album), You Can't Do That





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