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Tony Garnett

ProductionBorn April 3, 1936Died January 12, 2020 (age 83)Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK

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.

Filmography

2026
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

as Self - Friend and Producer

Movie
2020
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today

as Self – Producer (archive footage, 1993)

Movie
2010
Making Kes

as Self

Movie
2006Movie
1963
Festival

as Reg

TV
1963
The Rivals

as Jimmy Vosler

Movie
1963Movie
1962
The Boys

as James Alan "Ginger" Thompson

Movie
1962
Studio 4

as Gianmaria Bargigli

TV
1960
An Age of Kings

as Sir Thomas Grey

TV
1960TV
1960TV

Personal Info

DepartmentProduction
BirthdayApril 3, 1936
Day of DeathJanuary 12, 2020
Place of BirthErdington, Birmingham, England, UK
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