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Tony Garnett

Born 3 April 1936 · Erdington, Birmingham, England, UK · Died 12 January 2020

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

Kes
Earth Girls Are Easy
Beautiful Thing
Fat Man and Little Boy
Follow That Bird
Family Life
Hostile Waters
Cathy Come Home
The Sweet Body of Deborah
Black Jack
Handgun
Between the Lines
This Life +10
Hostile Waters
Beautiful Thing
Born Kicking
Fat Man and Little Boy
Earth Girls Are Easy
Follow That Bird
Handgun
Probation
Old Chums
Afternoon
The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup Final
Prostitute
Black Jack
The Spongers
The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People
The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality
Hard Labour
Blooming Youth
The Save the Children Fund Film
Family Life
The Body
Kes
The Big Flame
The Gorge
The Golden Vision
The Sweet Body of Deborah
The Parachute
In Two Minds
Drums Along The Avon
The Lump
Cathy Come Home
The Rivals
Incident at Midnight
The Boys
Tony Garnett · Midrow