Tony Garnett
Production
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
Production47
movieThis Life +10
2007
Producer
tvBuried
2003
Executive Producer
Attachments
2000
Executive Producer
tvThe Cops
1998
Executive Producer
movieHostile Waters
1997
Producer
movieBeautiful Thing
1996
Producer
tvThis Life
1996
Executive Producer
tvBallykissangel
1996
Producer
movieThe Turnaround
1995
Executive Producer
tvSharman
1995
Executive Producer
tvCardiac Arrest
1994
Producer
movieBorn Kicking
1992
Producer
tvBetween the Lines
1992
Producer, Executive Producer
movieFat Man and Little Boy
1989
Producer
movieEarth Girls Are Easy
1988
Producer
movieFollow That Bird
1985
Producer
movieHandgun
1983
Producer
movieAfternoon
1982
Producer
movieProbation
1982
Producer
movieOld Chums
1982
Producer
movieProstitute
1980
Producer
movieBlack Jack
1979
Producer
tvLaw & Order
1978
Producer
movieThe Spongers
1978
Producer
tvDays of Hope
1975
Producer
Steven
1974
Producer
movieBlooming Youth
1973
Producer
movieHard Labour
1973
Producer
movieFamily Life
1971
Producer
movieThe Body
1970
Producer
movieKes
1970
Producer
movieThe Big Flame
1969
Producer
movieThe Golden Vision
1968
Producer
movieThe Parachute
1968
Producer
movieThe Gorge
1968
Producer
movieDrums Along The Avon
1967
Producer
movieIn Two Minds
1967
Producer
movieThe Lump
1967
Producer
movieCathy Come Home
1966
Producer
tvBBC Play of the Month
1965
Producer
Acting13
movieDrama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
2020
Self – Producer (archive footage, 1993)
movieVersus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2016
Self - Friend and Producer
movieThe Rivals
1963
Jimmy Vosler
movieThe Boys
1962
James Alan "Ginger" Thompson
Studio 4
1962
Gianmaria Bargigli
tvAn Age of Kings
1960
Sir Thomas Grey / Bates / Vernon
Writing6
movieHandgun
1983
Writer
movieProstitute
1980
Writer
movieKes
1970
Screenplay
movieThe Coming Out Party
1965
Story Editor
movieStand Up, Nigel Barton
1965
Story Editor
movieUp the Junction
1965
Story Editor
Directing2
movieHandgun
1983
Director
movieProstitute
1980
Director
Creator1
Attachments
2000
Creator