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    Tony Garnett

    1936-04-03 (88 years old) in Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK

    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.

    Movies

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    Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
    70 %|Nov 19, 2019
    Documentary, TV Movie
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    Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
    66 %|Jun 30, 2016
    Documentary
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    Making Kes
    0 %|Sep 1, 2010
    Documentary
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    Carry on Ken
    0 %|Jan 1, 2006
    Documentary
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    Right to Work March
    0 %|Oct 19, 1972
    Drama, Documentary
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    The Rivals
    60 %|May 1, 1963
    Crime
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    Incident at Midnight
    60 %|Jan 1, 1963
    Crime
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    The Boys
    77.5 %|Aug 31, 1962
    Crime, Drama

    Series

    actor
    Studio Four
    60 %|Jan 22, 1962
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    An Age of Kings
    47 %|Apr 28, 1960
    Drama