Tony Garnett

Personal Info

Know For

Production

Gender

Male

Birthday

1936-04-03 (84 years old)

Deathday

2020-01-12

Place of Birth

Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK

Tony Garnett

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 Sesam...

Acting

1963

1962

The Boys

as James Alan "Ginger" Thompson

2016

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach

as Self - Friend and Producer

2010

Making Kes

as Self

Production

1997

Hostile Waters

as Producer

1988

1996

Beautiful Thing

as Producer

1968

The Gorge

as Producer

1965

Stand Up, Nigel Barton

as Story Editor

1980

Prostitute

as Director

1967

In Two Minds

as Producer

1969

The Big Flame

as Producer

1968

1970

The Body

as Producer

1982

Old Chums

as Producer

1982

Probation

as Producer

1982

Afternoon

as Producer

1982

A Light Snack

as Producer

1983

Handgun

as Director

1985

Follow That Bird

as Producer

1980

Prostitute

as Producer

1980

Prostitute

as Writer

1983

Handgun

as Producer

1983

Handgun

as Writer

1971

After a Lifetime

as Producer

1971

Family Life

as Producer

1966

Cathy Come Home

as Producer

1965

The Coming Out Party

as Story Editor

1973

Hard Labour

as Producer

1968

The Parachute

as Producer

1970

Kes

as Screenplay

1970

Kes

as Producer

1967

1967

1992

Born Kicking

as Producer

1967

The Lump

as Producer

1979

Black Jack

as Producer

1989

1995

The Turnaround

as Executive Producer

1978

The Spongers

as Producer

1973

Blooming Youth

as Producer

1965

Up the Junction

as Story Editor

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