Tony Palmer (2)

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.

Background
From Cambridge University (where he was also President of the Marlowe Society), he joined the BBC. Following an apprenticeship with Ken Russell and Jonathan Miller, Palmer's first major film, Benjamin Britten & his Festival, became the first BBC film to be networked in the United States. With his second film, All My Loving, an examination of rock and roll and politics in the late 1960s, he achieved considerable notoriety.

In 1989, he was awarded a retrospective of his work at the National Film Theatre in London, the first maker of arts films to be so honoured.

Opera and theatre
In addition to films, Tony Palmer has also directed in the theatre and in the opera house. After a debut at the Zurich Opera House with Peter Grimes ("the high point of the season", Neue Zürcher Zeitung), he had a double triumph in Karlsruhe, War and Peace, and again in Zurich with Berlioz's masterpiece, The Trojans ("marvellous" – London Daily Express). In Saint Petersburg, he directed the Russian premiere of Parsifal ("world class" – The Times), conducted by Valery Gergiev, with Plácido Domingo. He has also directed in Hamburg, Munich, Augsburg, Savonlinna, Berlin and Helsinki and recently became the first Western director ever to work at the Bolshoi in Moscow.

Parsifal won Best Theatre Production ('Casta Diva') in Moscow, 1997, as well as a 'Golden Mask'. On the West End stage he has directed the world premiere of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger Part Two, Déjà Vu. Mr Palmer also presented the BBC Radio 3 Arts magazine 'Night Waves', for which he won a Sony Award for best arts programme.

Writing
Tony Palmer has published several books, and has written for The New York Times, The Times, Punch, Life magazine etc. From 1967–74 he was a regular music critic for The Observer. From 1969–74 he had a weekly column in The Spectator entitled 'Notes from the Underground'. wiki

Director (52 credits)
2013 Vangelis and the Journey to Ithaka (Documentary)
2012 Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard (TV Movie documentary)
2011 Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter (TV Movie)
2010 Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire (Documentary)
2008 Fairport Convention: Maidstone 1970
2008 O, Fortuna! (TV Movie documentary)
2008 O Thou Transcendent (Video documentary)
2006 John Osborne and the Gift of Friendship (Video)
2006 The Salzburg Festival (Video documentary)
2005 Margot
2005 The Adventures of Benjamin Schmid (Video documentary)
1990-2004 The South Bank Show (TV Series documentary) (4 episodes)
2002 Renée Fleming (TV Movie documentary)
2002 Hero: The Bobby Moore Story (TV Movie documentary)
2000 Ruby's American Pie (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)
1999 The Strange Case of Delphina Potocka or The Mystery of Chopin
1988-1999 Great Performances (TV Series) (2 episodes)
1998 Primal Scream (Documentary)
1998 The Kindness of Strangers
1998 Choir Works (TV Short documentary) (as Anthony Palmer)
1998 The Harvest of Sorrow (TV Movie documentary)
1996 The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford (TV Movie documentary)
1996 Brahms and the Little Singing Girls
1995 England, my England
1991 American Masters (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)
1990 The Children
1988 Maria Callas: La Divina - A Portrait (TV Movie documentary)
1988 Testimony
1985 God Rot Tunbridge Wells! (TV Movie) (as Mr Tony Palmer)
1984 Puccini (TV Movie)
1981-1983 Wagner (TV Series) (10 episodes)
1982 Stravinsky: Once at a Border... (TV Movie)
1981 Death in Venice (TV Movie)
1980 The Space Movie (Documentary)
1979 Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was... (TV Movie documentary)
1978 Callas: A Documentary (TV Movie documentary)
1977 All You Need Is Love (TV Series documentary) (12 episodes)
1976 Acids of Virgin Music
1974 Leonard Cohen. Bird on a wire (Documentary)
1974 The World of Miss World (Documentary)
1968-1973 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) (4 episodes)
1972 The World of Liberace (TV Movie documentary)
1971 200 Motels (visuals)
1971 Four Ways to Say Farewell (TV Movie)
1970 Aquarius (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)
1970 Colosseum and Juicy Lucy (Short)
1969 Will the Real Mr Sellers.....? (TV Movie documentary)
1967-1968 Twice a Fortnight (TV Series) (11 episodes)
1968 Contrasts (TV Series) (1 episode)
1967 Benjamin Britten and His Festival (TV Movie documentary)
1966 Masterworks (TV Series) (2 episodes)
1966 The Look of the Week (TV Series)
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Enlaces completados:
OK Wagner (Tony Palmer, 1983)
OK 200 Motels (Tony Palmer & Frank Zappa, 1971)

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