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