Tony Garnett (born 3 April 1936) is a British film and television producer. Best known for his thirteen year association with director Ken Loach, his work as producer has continued into the present century.
To be an Englishman in the film industry is to know what it's like to be colonized.
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I am not an enemy of the BBC. I am a critical friend. True friends point out your failings - however uncomfortable that makes you - and the anguish in the creative community and the short-changing of the audience make me feel obligated to speak some truths about BBC drama. The problem is systematic and cultural. The BBC's drama department has changed over a generation in ways which have coarsened both it and wider culture. The corporation has built an organisation which is perfectly tuned to allow it to exercise control and to crush the creative act - despite creativity being one of its main reasons for existing.
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Fact
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When asked what lasting effect award-winning TV play Cathy Come Home had in 1989, Garnett pointed out that the number of homeless in Britain had more than doubled "...but Ken (Loach) and I now live in much more expensive houses.".
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Rough Diamond
2007
TV Series executive producer - 4 episodes
Lilies
2007
TV Series executive producer - 1 episode
This Life + 10
2007
TV Movie producer
Attachments
2000
TV Series executive producer
Stanton Blues
1998
TV Series executive producer - 8 episodes
This Life
1996-1997
TV Series executive producer - 32 episodes
Hostile Waters
1997
TV Movie producer
Ballykissangel
1996-1997
TV Series executive producer - 14 episodes
Sharman
1996
TV Series executive producer - 1 episode
Christmas
1996
TV Movie executive producer
Beautiful Thing
1996
producer
The Turnaround
1995
executive producer
Between the Lines
1992-1994
TV Series executive producer - 34 episodes
Cardiac Arrest
1994
TV Series producer
Screen One
1992
TV Series producer - 1 episode
The Staggering Stories of Ferdinand De Bargos
1989
TV Series executive producer
Fat Man and Little Boy
1989
producer
Earth Girls Are Easy
1988
producer
Follow That Bird
1985
producer
Deep in the Heart
1984
producer
Five-Minute Films
1982
TV Series short producer - 5 episodes
Prostitute
1980
producer
Black Jack
1979
producer
Law & Order
1978
TV Mini-Series producer - 4 episodes
Play for Today
1973-1978
TV Series producer - 5 episodes
Days of Hope
1975
TV Mini-Series producer - 4 episodes
The Enemy Within
1974
TV Movie producer
Steven
1974
TV Movie producer
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
1972
TV Movie producer
The Save the Children Fund Film
1971
Documentary producer
Family Life
1971
producer
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1971
TV Series producer - 1 episode
The Body
1971
Documentary producer
Kes
1969
producer
The Wednesday Play
1966-1969
TV Series producer - 10 episodes
Il dolce corpo di Deborah
1968
producer
BBC Play of the Month
1968
TV Series producer - 1 episode
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
ITV Play of the Week
1965
TV Series
Norman Evans
Festival
1964
TV Series
Reg
Teletale
1964
TV Series
Richard
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre
1963
TV Series
Jimmy Vosier / Brennan
Dixon of Dock Green
1961-1963
TV Series
Tony Brown / Tom Bright
The Birth of a Private Man
1963
TV Movie
Colin Waring
Incident at Midnight
1963
Brennan
The Rivals
1963
Jimmy Vosier
Drama 61-67
1961-1962
TV Series
Joe
The Boys
1962
Ginger Thompson
Compact
1962
TV Series
Sonny Oakley
A Climate of Fear
1962
TV Movie
Colin Waring
Z Cars
1962
TV Series
Jack Nichol
Studio 4
1962
TV Series
Gianmaria Bargigli
About Religion
1961
TV Series
The reporter
Emergency-Ward 10
1961
TV Series
Ronald Jackson
The Alchemist
1961
TV Movie
Kastril, the Angry Boy
The Train Set
1961
TV Movie
Les
BBC Sunday-Night Play
1960
TV Mini-Series
Claude
An Age of Kings
1960
TV Series
Sir John Somerville / Messenger / John Holland / ...
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