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.
The Boys
as James Alan "Ginger" ThompsonA night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the...
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Right To Work March
as uncreditedThey're young, unemployed and on the march - from Glasgow, Liverpool and Swansea to London.
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Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
as HimselfA surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s...
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Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
as SelfComedian, actor and ex-English teacher Greg Davies is a lifelong fan of Barry Hines's classic...
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Carry on Ken
as uncreditedA documentary on the films of Ken Loach. Interviews with cast and crew who worked with Loach...
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The Rivals
as uncreditedA pair of hoodlums steal a car in which there is a note - a ransom letter - directed to a...
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Making Kes
as HimselfA documentary on the making of Kes, produced by the Criterion Collection.
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Incident at Midnight
as BrennanIn a late night chemist a shot bank robber has been taken for treatment, and to rendezvous with...
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An Age of Kings
as uncreditedA linking together of Shakespeare's history plays chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over...
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