Tony Palmer
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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.
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The Children (1990)
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In from the Cold? A Portrait of Richard Burton (1988)
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England, My England (1995)
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Will the Real Mr Sellers.....? (1969)
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Rachmaninoff: The Harvest of Sorrow (1998)
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Testimony (1988)
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200 Motels (1971)
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Falls the Shadow: The Life and Times of Athol Fugard (2012)
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The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka (1999)
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Puccini (1984)
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Toward the Unknown Region: Malcolm Arnold - A Story of Survival (2004)
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Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams (2006)
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All My Loving (1968)
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Fairport Convention and Matthews Southern Comfort (1972)
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Callas: A Documentary (1978)
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God Rot Tunbridge Wells! (1985)
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Colosseum and Juicy Lucy (1970)
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O, Fortuna! (2008)
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The World of Liberace (1973)
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Margot (2005)
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Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire (2010)
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Cream: Farewell Concert (1969)
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Death in Venice (1981)
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Ginger Baker: In Africa (1973)
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Menuhin, A Family Portrait (1991)
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The Space Movie (1980)
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Mighty Good: The Beatles (1977)
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Benjamin Britten and His Festival (1967)
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The Fantastic World of Michael Crawford (1996)
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The Kindness of Strangers (1998)
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Tangerine Dream at Coventry Cathedral (2006)
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Parsifal: The Search for the Grail (1998)
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Bernstein Mahler Rehearsal (1976)
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At the Haunted End of the Day (1981)
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Harriet at Play (1976)
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The Wigan Casino (1977)
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Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour ’74 (1974)
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Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming (2002)
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Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter (2011)
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Brahms and the Little Singing Girls (1996)
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Henryk Górecki: The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs (1993)
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The World of Miss World (1974)
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Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was… (1979)
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Leonard Cohen: The Bird on a Wire Concerts (2024)
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Vangelis: The Interviews (2016)
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The Burning Fiery Furnace (1967)
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Stravinsky: Once at a Border... (1982)
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Rope Ladder to the Moon (2010)
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Hero: The Bobby Moore Story (2002)
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The Beatles And World War II (2017)
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Harriet At Butlins (1974)
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Britten: Nocturne (2013)
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The Wagner Family (2009)
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O Thou Transcendent: The Life of Ralph Vaughan Williams (2007)
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The World of Hugh Hefner (1973)
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Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress (1990)
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