Person
Tony Garnett
Production · 1936–2020 · 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.
Known for
BBC Play of the Month
Producer
World in Action
1963
Cardiac Arrest
Producer
Between the Lines
Producer
Festival
Reg
Studio 4
Gianmaria Bargigli
Ballykissangel
Producer
This Life
Executive Producer
An Age of Kings
1960
Attachments
Executive Producer
Filmography
- 2020Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for TodaySelf – Producer (archive footage, 1993)
- 2019Greg Davies: Looking for KesSelf
- 2016Versus: The Life and Films of Ken LoachSelf - Friend and Producer
- 2010Making KesSelf
- 2007This Life +10Producer
- 2006Carry On Ken
- 2003BuriedExecutive Producer
- 2000AttachmentsExecutive Producer
- 1998The CopsExecutive Producer
- 1997Hostile WatersProducer
- 1996Beautiful ThingProducer
- 1996This LifeExecutive Producer
- 1996BallykissangelProducer
- 1995The TurnaroundExecutive Producer
- 1995SharmanExecutive Producer
- 1994Cardiac ArrestProducer
- 1992Born KickingProducer
- 1992Between the LinesProducer
- 1989Fat Man and Little BoyProducer
- 1988Earth Girls Are EasyProducer
- 1985Follow That BirdProducer
- 1983HandgunDirector
- 1982AfternoonProducer
- 1982A Light SnackProducer
- 1982ProbationProducer
- 1982Old ChumsProducer
- 1982The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup FinalProducer
- 1980ProstituteDirector
- 1979Black JackProducer
- 1978Law & OrderProducer
- 1978The SpongersProducer
- 1977The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to RealityProducer
- 1977The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the PeopleProducer
- 1975Days of HopeProducer
- 1974StevenProducer
- 1973Blooming YouthProducer
- 1973Hard LabourProducer
- 1972Right to Work March
- 1971Family LifeProducer
- 1971The Save the Children Fund FilmProducer
- 1970The BodyProducer
- 1970KesProducer
- 1969The Big FlameProducer
- 1968The Golden VisionProducer
- 1968The Sweet Body of DeborahProducer
- 1968The ParachuteProducer
- 1968The GorgeProducer
- 1967Drums Along The AvonProducer
- 1967The Voices in the ParkProducer
- 1967In Two MindsProducer
- 1967The LumpProducer
- 1966Cathy Come HomeProducer
- 1965The Coming Out PartyStory Editor
- 1965Stand Up, Nigel BartonStory Editor
- 1965Up the JunctionStory Editor
- 1965BBC Play of the MonthProducer
- 1963FestivalReg
- 1963The RivalsJimmy Vosler
- 1963Incident at MidnightBrennan
- 1963World in Action
- 1962The BoysJames Alan "Ginger" Thompson
- 1962Studio 4Gianmaria Bargigli
- 1960An Age of Kings
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