Tony Garnett
Known For
Production
Born
1936-04-03 in Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK
Died
2020-01-12
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.
Most Known For
Festival
as Reg
An Age of Kings
An Age of Kings
as Sir Thomas Grey
An Age of Kings
as Bates
An Age of Kings
as Vernon
Studio 4
as Gianmaria Bargigli
The Boys
as James Alan "Ginger" Thompson
Right to Work March
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
as Self - Friend and Producer
Incident at Midnight
as Brennan
Carry On Ken
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
as Self
The Rivals
as Jimmy Vosler
Making Kes
as Self