Tony Garnett

Biography

Tony Garnett is a British film and television producer, director and former actor. He is best known for his thirteen-year association with director Ken Loach, which started with The Wednesday Play and the groundbreaking Cathy Come Home amongst others, and continued into Play For Today and big screen features such as Kes. His other TV productions have included the controversial Law and Order and The Spongers and, with his company World Productions, Between the Lines, Ballykissangel, Cops, Cardiac Arrest and This Life. As a director, he helmed the films Prostitute and Handgun, and produced Hollywood movies such as Earth Girls are Easy and Sesame Street's Follow That Bird, and British cult LGBT classic Beautiful Thing. In 2016, he released his memoir, The Day the Music Died.

Known For

World in Action

An Age of Kings

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

The Boys

Carry On Ken

All Movies (9)

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach2026 · as Self - Friend and Producer
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today2020 · as Self – Producer (archive footage, 1993)
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes2019 · as Self
Making Kes2010 · as Self
Carry On Ken2006
Right to Work March1972
The Rivals1963 · as Jimmy Vosler
Incident at Midnight1963 · as Brennan
The Boys1962 · as James Alan "Ginger" Thompson

All TV Shows (7)

Festival1963 · as Reg
World in Action1963
Studio 41962 · as Gianmaria Bargigli
An Age of Kings1960
An Age of Kings1960 · as Sir Thomas Grey
An Age of Kings1960 · as Bates
An Age of Kings1960 · as Vernon