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Tony Palmer
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Film & TV
London
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…
Known for
- Richard Burton: Wild Genius — Self2025
- All We Got Was Love — Self2021
- Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers — Self2014
- The Piano Room2013
- Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining — Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)2013
- Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul — Self2012
- Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused — Himself2009
- The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels — Self1988
- The Making of 200 Motels — Self1971
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tony
- Family name
- Palmer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- Trinity Hall
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Official website
- www.tonypalmer.org/Tony_Palmer_biography.htm
- Image
- Tony Palmer - Sofia.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1941-08-29
- member of
- Royal Geographical Society
- Commons category
- Tony Palmer
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