Tony Palmer

Biography

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tony Palmer, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.    

Known For

Richard Burton: Wild Genius

Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul

The Making of 200 Motels

The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels

The Piano Room

Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining

Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused

Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers

All Movies (9)

• Richard Burton: Wild Genius2025 · as Self
• All We Got Was Love2021 · as Self
• Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers2014 · as Self
• The Piano Room2013
• Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining2013 · as Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
• Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul2012 · as Self
• Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused2009 · as Himself
• The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels1988 · as Self
• The Making of 200 Motels1971 · as Self