Born in Birmingham on 3rd April 1936. Attended local primary and grammar schools.
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1957-60 |
Psychology Department, University College London |
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1956 + |
Spent most of my twenties as an actor. A selection of my work included: The Boys David Mercer’s CND Trilogy Trevor – Written by David Turner An Age of Kings Shakespeare’s History Plays |
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1965-79 |
Writer, Producer, Director at BBC Television |
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1979-87 |
Writer, Producer, Director in Los Angeles |
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1990-2009 |
Chairman, Writer, Producer at World Productions Ltd. |
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2001-2004 |
Visiting Professor, Media Arts Department, Royal Holloway University of London
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2001 |
Honorary Doctorate from University of Reading |
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2005 |
Honorary Doctorate from Birmingham City University (formerly University of Central England)
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2009 |
Honorary Doctorate from Royal Holloway University of London
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1963-64 |
The Wednesday Play |
Producer
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James MacTaggart Ken Loach Neil Dunn Tony Garnett |
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1966 |
Cathy Come Home[16/11/66] |
Producer Director |
Tony Garnett Ken Loach Jeremy Sandford |
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The Little Master Mind |
Producer Director |
Tony Garnett Nemone Lethbridge
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1967 |
The Lump
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Producer Director
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Tony Garnett Jack Gold Jim allen
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In Two Minds
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Producer Director
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Tony Garnett Ken Loach David Mercer
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The Voices In the Park[05/04/67]
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Producer Director
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Tony Garnett John MacKenzie Leon Griffiths
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Drums Along The Avon
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Producer Director
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Tony Garnett James MacTaggart Charles Wood |
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An Officer of the Court[20/12/67] |
Producer Director |
Tony Garnett |
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1968 |
[17/04/68]
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Producer Director
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Tony Garnett Ken Loach Neville Smith Gordon Honeycombe |
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Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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1969 |
Some Women
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Producer Director |
Tony Garnett |
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[19/02/69] |
Producer Director |
Tony Garnett |
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The Parachute |
Producer Director |
Tony Garnett |
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In Black and White [Save the Children Fund] |
Producer Director |
Tony Garnett |
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Kes |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett
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1970 |
Kestrel/EMI
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Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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1971 |
After a Lifetime |
Producer Director |
Tony Garnett |
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Family Life |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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1972 |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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1973 |
Hard Labour |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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Blooming Youth
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Producer Director |
Tony Garnett |
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1974 |
Stephen |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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The Enemy Within |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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1975 |
Five Minute Films FA Cup Final Goalie Old Chums Probation A Light Snack Afternoon
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Producer Director |
Tony Garnett
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Days of Hope
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Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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1977 |
The Price of Coal |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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1978 |
The Spongers
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Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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Law and Order |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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Black Jack |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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1979 |
United Kingdom BBC |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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1980 |
Prostitute |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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1982 |
Hand Gun |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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1985 |
Follow That Bird |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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1988 |
Earth Girls Are Easy |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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1989 |
Shadow Makers Aka Fat Man and Little Boy Paramount |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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1992 |
Born Kicking |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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1993 |
Between The Lines |
Ex Producer Producer
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Tony Garnett |
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1994 |
Cardiac Arrest |
Ex Producer ProducersDirector
Writers |
Tony Garnett |
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1996 |
Ballykissangel |
Ex Producer Producers Created by |
Tony Garnett |
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Beautiful Thing
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Producers |
Tony Garnett |
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This Life
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Ex Producer |
Tony Garnett |
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1997 |
Hostile Waters |
Producer Director
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Tony Garnett |
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1998 |
The Cops I |
Ex Producer Director Created by
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Tony Garnett |
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1999 |
The Cops II World Productions |
Ex Producer Director |
Tony Garnett |
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2000 |
World Productions |
Ex Producer Director |
Tony Garnett |
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2001 |
Attachments II World Productions |
Ex Producer Director |
Tony Garnett |
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2002 |
World Productions |
Ex Producer Director Writers |
Tony Garnett |
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2007 |
World Productions |
Ex Producer Director Writers |
Tony Garnett |
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World Productions |
Producer Director Writer |
Tony Garnett |
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World Productions |
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Tony Garnett |
Tony Garnett
Biography
BFI Retrospective
Blog Posts
Crisis - Ending Homelessness 
Blair, Milburn and Hattersley: a modern morality Socialism without the free artist becomes Stalinism 
Villa Winning!?! 
Cathy Come Home - 50 years on Events 
Trumpism Obesity and the NHS 
Writing your story 
Fighting exploitation in the film & TV industry 
Corbyn and Attlee 
Events 
The Day The Music Died 
On Performance Nurturing creativity in filmmaking 
BECTU Freelancers' Fair 2016: Political Drama 
Response to the BBC White Paper 
Old books, new blog post 
On Success and Failure Goodbye Facebook? 
CBI and Mussolini 
Orgreave 
CBEEBIES 
Junior doctors are the new miners of 1984 
The inspiration behind 'The Spongers' 
Arnold Wesker, Jim Allen and Perdition Remembering Barry Hines 
Saying goodbye to Barry Hines Villa Park 
Off-Cut: Law and Order - 1916 Off-Cut: Kes - the football scene Football is about family Barry Hines 1939 - 2016 
Don’t blame the old Etonians. Some of them are even good actors. Tory sale of council houses and Labour’s PFI. A connection? Sure! “Two steps forward, one step back”: Vladimir Ilyich Hunt goes into enemy territory, The Guardian, and becomes Nye Bevan. Beware a Tory with his “hurt” face on So the penny has finally dropped, eh? Get with the programme, Dave Prentis! Privatisation of the NHS by stealth started with Blair. Think these refugees are a problem? @yanisvaroufakis - find your answer to Europe vote. Remembering Jim Allen Kids Company Google Tax The Aneurin Bevan Memorial Lecture, 2060 Steve Hilton Today 'The BBC Made Me' 
Off-Cut: Attachments 
Off-Cut: Ballykissangel The BBC Files
Tony Garnett on the BBC Files The Wednesday Play: Aims and Policy Sydney Newman defends The Wednesday Play D.A.N. Jones on Sidney Newman [sic] - The Listener 1967 A Discussion with Frank Kermode "Committed" Plays in Television Huw Wheldon's near resignation over 'Up The Junction' 'Days of Hope' - going to extremes (The Listener 1975) 'Days of Hope': various BBC correspondence 'Five Women': correspondence with Huw Wheldon 'Law and Order': various BBC correspondence Control over Subject Matter in BBC Television MI5 and the Christmas Tree files - secret political vetting at the BBC Events
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'A typical reaction was a snigger... I was making a film about the wrong kind of bird' Saying goodbye to Barry Hines 
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Black Jack
Prostitute
Handgun
Follow That Bird
Earth Girls are Easy
Fat Man and Little Boy
Beautiful Thing
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Up The Junction
Cathy Come Home
Details "We need drama people believe in" Grace Wyndham Goldie Article 1967 Cathy Come Home - 50 years on Gallery Cathy Come Home left out in cold by BBC row ‘Cathy Come Home’ and ‘Accuracy’ in British Television Drama Youtube (not free)The Little Master Mind
The Lump
The Spongers
In Two Minds
The Voices in the Park
Drums Along the Avon
An Officer of the Court
The Golden Vision
The Gorge
Some Women
The Big Flame
The Parachute
The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui
Hard Labour
Blooming Youth
Steven
The Enemy Within
Days of Hope
The Price of Coal
Law and Order
Five Minute Films
Books
Unpublished Writing
Off-Cut: The Parachute Off-Cut: Arturo Ui Off-Cut: The Price of Coal Off-Cut: Save the Children Fund Off-Cut: The Ones That Got Away Off-Cut: The Producing MA 
Off-Cut: Beautiful Thing Off-Cut: Kes - the football scene Off-Cut: Attachments 
Off-Cut: The Golden Vision 
Off-Cut: Prostitute Off-Cut: Cardiac Arrest The Aneurin Bevan Memorial Lecture, 2060 
Off-Cut: Between The Lines The Seductions of Lucy Foster
Marine Ices
Free Love
The Day the Music Died
Archive
Books About TG
Articles About TG
Production Notes from Beautiful Thing Doyen attacks “poison” in TV industry Ken Loach Variety Dec 15, 1997 The Observer - TV's Secret Godfather Cathy Come Home left out in cold by BBC row Kes It's a Cop Out ‘Cathy Come Home’ and ‘Accuracy’ in British Television Drama When This Life entered our lives... Dot.com drama starts up on BBC2 Welcome to seethru INTERFERENCE - CV: Tony Garnett In Praise of the Great Unknowns Autumn 2000 BBC 2 Season The Cops call it a day after three series Setting sites on the Net The beat goes on... (Bafta 2000 magazine) Attachments article AfterLife (circa 2000) A REAL BOBBY World Champion It’s a Big World After All Research by Karen Shepherdson (2001) Articles by TG
Barry Hines 1939 - 2016 Drowning By Numbers - New Statesman Jim Allen Obituary Off-Cut: The Ones That Got Away Off-Cut: The Producing MA Off-Cut: Attachments Remembering Barry Hines How to kill creativity while claiming to help it grow. Interviews
Tracking Changes - BFI Interview 2014 'A typical reaction was a snigger... I was making a film about the wrong kind of bird' 
On BBC News 'HARDtalk' with Stephen Sackur 
On BBC Radio 3 'Free Thinking' with Matthew Sweet Podcast - BBC Radio 5 Live Afternoon Edition - July 11 Theatre Quarterly, Vol. II, No. 6, April-June 1972 THIS LIFE, THIS ART KICKING OVER THE TRACES – Interview with Tony Garnett Extracts from an Interview August 2000 A REAL BOBBY Meet the producer Speeches
Tony Garnett talks about THE COPS - November 1998 Recipe for a dust-up (Drama Forum) Performance With Banners Held High - the BBC and miners strikes Screenplay A Message For Graduates - Creatively Disrupt Crisis - Ending Homelessness Notes from the Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture, 1996 Reading University Speech 1998 For the love of it: in praise of the amateur