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.
The Rivals
(Jimmy Vosler)
Incident at Midnight
(Brennan)
The Boys
(James Alan "Ginger" Thompson)
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
(Self - Friend and Producer)
Right to Work March
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
(Self)
Carry On Ken
Making Kes
(Self)
An Age of Kings
Studio Four
An Age of Kings
(Sir Thomas Grey)
An Age of Kings
(Bates)
An Age of Kings
(Vernon)
Festival
(Reg)
Hostile Waters
(Producer)
Earth Girls Are Easy
(Producer)
Beautiful Thing
(Producer)
The Gorge
(Producer)
Stand Up, Nigel Barton
(Story Editor)
Prostitute
(Director)
The Save the Children Fund Film
(Producer)
In Two Minds
(Producer)
The Big Flame
(Producer)
The Golden Vision
(Producer)
The Body
(Producer)
Old Chums
(Producer)
Probation
(Producer)
The Birth of the Goalie of the 2001 F.A. Cup Final
(Producer)
Afternoon
(Producer)
A Light Snack
(Producer)
Handgun
(Director)
Follow That Bird
(Producer)
Prostitute
(Producer)
Prostitute
(Writer)
Handgun
(Producer)
Handgun
(Writer)
After a Lifetime
(Producer)
Family Life
(Producer)
Cathy Come Home
(Producer)
The Coming Out Party
(Story Editor)
The Sweet Body of Deborah
(Producer)
Hard Labour
(Producer)
The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People
(Producer)
The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality
(Producer)
The Parachute
(Producer)
Kes
(Screenplay)
Kes
(Producer)
Drums Along The Avon
(Producer)
The Voices in the Park
(Producer)
Born Kicking
(Producer)
The Lump
(Producer)
Black Jack
(Producer)
Fat Man and Little Boy
(Producer)
The Turnaround
(Executive Producer)
The Spongers
(Producer)
Blooming Youth
(Producer)
Up the Junction
(Story Editor)
This Life
(Executive Producer)
Ballykissangel
(Producer)
Between the Lines
(Producer)
The Cops
(Executive Producer)
Cardiac Arrest
(Producer)
Days of Hope
(Producer)
Sharman
(Executive Producer)
Law & Order
(Producer)
Attachments
(Executive Producer)
BBC Play of the Month
(Producer)
Buried
(Executive Producer)
Attachments
(Creator)