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Tony Garnett

Born 1936-04-03

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

Beautiful Thing 1996 · 7.6 Earth Girls Are Easy 1988 · 5.5 Kes 1970 · 7.9 Fat Man and Little Boy 1989 · 6.5 Family Life 1971 · 7.5 Hostile Waters 1997 · 6.3 The Sweet Body of Deborah 1968 · 5.9 Black Jack 1979 · 6.7 Deep in the Heart 1983 · 6.4 Greg Davies: Looking for Kes 2019 · 8.1 Cathy Come Home 1966 · 7.1