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Tony Garnett

Tony Garnett

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.

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Movies Made By Tony Garnett (38)

Hostile Waters (1997)

Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and an ensuing standoff occurs that could lead to total annihilation. ...

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Beautiful Thing (1996)

During a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood. ...

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The Turnaround (1995)

Private investigator Nick Sharman accepts a case which at first seems intriguing, but ends up causing him bitter regret. ...

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Born Kicking (1992)

Roxanne (known as Roxy) is a star performer in her local soccer team. Her natural talent is noticed by local team owner Victor Grace who signs her up. However it's not so easy being the only female professional soccer star in the country. ...

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Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash ...

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Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)

In this musical comedy, Valerie is dealing with her philandering fiancé, Ted, when she finds that a trio of aliens have crashed their spaceship into her swimming pool. Once the furry beings are shaved at her girlfriend's salon, the women discover three ha ...

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Follow That Bird (1985)

Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker, who thinks it would be better for him to live with other birds. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-countr ...

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Handgun (1983)

Shortly after moving to Dallas, a young woman is raped at gunpoint. Her intense anger drives her to seek revenge, and she becomes a hunter on a vengeance mission. ...

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Afternoon (1982)

A couple of old friends drown their sorrows together while reveling in the naivety of a young newly-wed. ...

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A Light Snack (1982)

A window cleaner fancies a sausage roll, but all is not well in the sausage roll factory. ...

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Probation (1982)

A boy goes to see his probation officer. ...

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Old Chums (1982)

A man on crutches bumps into an old acquaintance who relentlessly bombards him with small talk. ...

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The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup Final (1982)

A slow-witted couple decide to start a family. ...

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Prostitute (1980)

The tale of two women: Sandra, an ambitious but naive Birmingham working girl who moves to London with the hope of securing wealthier patrons, and Louise, her social worker friend, who is fighting to change the antiquated and hypocritical prostitution laws ...

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Black Jack (1979)

When honest young Tolly is forced on the run with 'Black Jack', a villainous ruffian, adventure and mishap are never far away. As the two enter a world of body-snatchers, private lunatic asylums, and traveling fairs they find friendship in the most unlikel ...

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The Spongers (1978)

In the days leading up the Queen's Silver Jubilee, Pauline, a recently separated single mother, receives a visit from a bailiff and is given 15 days to address her overdue rent payments. Meanwhile, the local council is under pressure to cut expenditure, an ...

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The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality (1977)

A month after the royal visit, the workers at Milton Colliery are brought crashing back down to earth by an underground explosion. ...

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The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People (1977)

The workers of Milton Colliery prepare for a royal visit from Prince Charles. ...

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Blooming Youth (1973)

An improvised character piece, overseen by Les Blair and Tony Garnett set in the everyday life of a group of polytechnic students. ...

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Hard Labour (1973)

A quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence. ...

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Family Life (1971)

A young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life and consider their daughter to be "misbehaving" whenever she's trying to find her own way in life. ...

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After a Lifetime (1971)

Ken Loach's first production for ITV, shown under the 'Sunday Night Theatre' strand (originally broadcast 18th July 1971). After a Lifetime is something of a neglected, social realist masterpiece that focuses on two brothers, brought together by the death ...

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The Save the Children Fund Film (1971)

Director Ken Loach explores the politics of race, class and charity in a capitalist society in this documentary funded by the Save the Children foundation. ...

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The Body (1970)

A psychedelic documentary of the body electric, with music by Pink Floyd. The film was directed and produced by Roy Battersby. The film's narrators, Frank Finlay and Vanessa Redgrave, provide commentary that combines the knowledge of human biologists and ...

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Kes (1970)

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher a ...

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The Big Flame (1969)

After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to occupy the docks and run the operation themselves. ...

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The Golden Vision (1968)

The obsessive supporters of Everton FC forsake wives, families and God to follow their beloved team. Meanwhile, the club and its players try to live up to their expectations. ...

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The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)

A newlywed couple visits the husband's hometown of Geneva, where they are subjected to threats stemming from the death of his former fiancée. ...

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The Parachute (1968)

As the Nazis grow ever more powerful in Germany, Werner grows up in an aristocratic household, hating his domineering father and making enemies in high places. ...

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The Gorge (1968)

A reluctant teenager accompanies his family on a day out to a local beauty spot. ...

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Drums Along The Avon (1967)

A liberal white man becomes a Muslim to promote racial harmony. ...

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The Voices in the Park (1967)

The life and passions of a speaker at Hyde Park Corner. ...

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In Two Minds (1967)

Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the "bad Kate" who commits immoral acts. Could the hypocrisy, selfishness and weakness of those around her have led to this sta ...

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The Lump (1967)

The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade. ...

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Cathy Come Home (1966)

Cathy and Reg are a couple with three young children, who find their life spiralling into poverty when Reg loses his well-paid job. Gripping and emotional, Cathy Come Home remains a truly ground-breaking piece of dramatic fiction, engaging viewers with soc ...

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The Coming Out Party (1965)

When a boy discovers that both his parents are in prison, he sets out to find them. ...

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Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965)

Semi-autobiographical TV play by Dennis Potter, from the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series. It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobber ...

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Up the Junction (1965)

The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London. ...

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Movies Starring Tony Garnett (9)

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach (2026)

A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain's most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as he prepares to release his final major film I, Daniel Blake. ...

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

Marking Play for Today's 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies and legacies. Featuring a rich and surprising range of archive extracts and original interviews with many ...

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Greg Davies: Looking for Kes (2019)

Comedian, actor and ex-English teacher Greg Davies is a lifelong fan of Barry Hines's classic novel A Kestrel for a Knave, the story of Billy Casper training a kestrel as an escape from his troubled home and school life. In this documentary, Greg goes in s ...

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Making Kes (2010)

A documentary on the making of Kes, produced by the Criterion Collection. ...

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Carry On Ken (2006)

A documentary on the films of Ken Loach. Interviews with cast and crew who worked with Loach over the years. It describe his approach to allowing actors a wide range of freedom. ...

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Right to Work March (1972)

They're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London. ...

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The Rivals (1963)

A pair of hoodlums steal a car in which there is a note - a ransom letter - directed to a wealthy man whose daughter has just been kidnapped. The two gangsters stole the abductor's car and when they find the note, they decide to take advantage of the situa ...

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Incident at Midnight (1963)

In a late night chemist a shot bank robber has been taken for treatment, and to rendezvous with the gang leader. ...

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The Boys (1962)

A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges. ...

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