Directing
Tony Palmer
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.
Titles
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
2009
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1988
All We Got Was Love
2021
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
2014
Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
2013
The Piano Room
2013
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
2012
The Making of 200 Motels
1971