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Tony Palmer

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83 Years Old

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.    

Born

London on 29th August 1941

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Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused Image
Led Zeppelin: Dazed & Confused
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The Piano Room Image
The Piano Room
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels Image
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
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Frank Zappa filmt 200 Motels
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Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul Image
Keep on Burning: The Story of Northern Soul
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Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers Image
Frank Zappa - Freak Jazz, Movie Madness & Another Mothers
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All We Got Was Love Image
All We Got Was Love
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