Tony Palmer
Directing
August 29, 1941 (85 years old)
London
9
Acting Credits
59
Directed
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 f...
Known For
Filmography
Richard Burton: Wild Genius
2025
as Self
7.5
All We Got Was Love
2021
as Self
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
2014
as Self
8
The Piano Room
2013
5
Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
2013
as Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
8
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
2012
as Self
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
2009
as Himself
7.3
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
1988
as Self
7.3
The Making of 200 Motels
1971
as Self