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 Sesame Street's Follow That Bird, and British cult LGBT classic Beautiful Thing. In 2016, he released his memoir, The Day the Music Died.
Movie Appearances
The Rivals
as Jimmy Vosler
1963
Incident at Midnight
as Brennan
1963
The Boys
as James Alan "Ginger" Thompson
1962
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
as Self - Friend and Producer
2016
Right to Work March
1972
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
as Self
2019
Carry On Ken
2006
Making Kes
as Self
2010
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
as Self – Producer (archive footage, 1993)
2020
