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Tony Palmer

Directing · Born August 29, 1941 · London

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.

Movies with Tony Palmer

• Richard Burton: Wild Genius (2025) — Self
• Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused (2009) — Himself
• The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1988) — Self
• The Making of 200 Motels (1971) — Self
• Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers (2014) — Self
• Staircases to Nowhere: Making Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (2013) — Himself - interviewee (2026 special edition)
• Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul (2012) — Self
• All We Got Was Love (2021) — Self
• The Piano Room (2013)