Tony Garnett
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- April 3, 1936
- Place of birth
- Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK
- Died
- January 12, 2020
Biography
Tony Garnett is a British film and television producer, director and former actor. He is best known for his thirteen-year association with director Ken Loach, which started with The Wednesday Play and the groundbreaking Cathy Come Home amongst others, and continued into Play For Today and big screen features such as Kes. His other TV productions have included the controversial Law and Order and The Spongers and, with his company World Productions, Between the Lines, Ballykissangel, Cops, Cardiac Arrest and This Life. As a director, he helmed the films Prostitute and Handgun, and produced Hollywood movies such as Earth Girls are Easy and Sesame Street's Follow That Bird, and British cult LGBT classic Beautiful Thing. In 2016, he released his memoir, The Day the Music Died.
Movies with Tony Garnett
- Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach 2016 · ★ 6.6
- The Boys 1962 · ★ 7.5
- The Rivals 1963 · ★ 6.0
- Incident at Midnight 1963 · ★ 7.0
- Greg Davies: Looking for Kes 2019 · ★ 7.0
- Right to Work March 1972
- Carry On Ken 2006
- Making Kes 2010
- Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today 2020
Movies directed by Tony Garnett
- Handgun 1983 · ★ 5.8
- Prostitute 1980 · ★ 5.5