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.
Acting
Movie
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
as Self - Friend and Producer
2016
Movie
The Boys
as James Alan "Ginger" Thompson
1962
TV
An Age of Kings
1960
TV
An Age of Kings
as Sir Thomas Grey
1960
TV
An Age of Kings
as Bates
1960
TV
An Age of Kings
as Vernon
1960
Movie
The Rivals
as Jimmy Vosler
1963
Movie
Incident at Midnight
as Brennan
1963
TV
Studio 4
as Gianmaria Bargigli
1962
TV
World in Action
1963
Movie
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
as Self
2019
TV
Festival
as Reg
1963
Movie
Right to Work March
1972
Movie
Carry On Ken
2006
Movie
Making Kes
as Self
2010
Movie
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
as Self – Producer (archive footage, 1993)
2020
Crew
Movie
Kes
Screenplay
1970
Movie
Earth Girls Are Easy
Producer
1988
Movie
Beautiful Thing
Producer
1996
Movie
Fat Man and Little Boy
Producer
1989
Movie
Follow That Bird
Producer
1985
Movie
Family Life
Producer
1971
Movie
Hostile Waters
Producer
1997
Movie
Cathy Come Home
Producer
1966
TV
This Life
Executive Producer
1996
Movie
The Sweet Body of Deborah
Producer
1968
Movie
Black Jack
Producer
1979
Movie
Handgun
Director
1983