Anthony Wall (film-maker)

Anthony Wall
Alma mater King's College, Cambridge
Occupation Filmmaker

Anthony Wall is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose lifelong contribution to cinema has been honoured with the Special Medallion of the Telluride film festival. He has for over 30 years been a director, then Series Editor & Executive Producer of the BBC's flagship arts documentary strand Arena, voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast (magazine) as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time.

Directors and producers with whom he has worked on the strand include Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. The subjects of his films are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures in 20th and 21st centuries, from Slim Gaillard to Amy Winehouse, from Edward Said to Eric Hobsbawm and from Jean Genet to V S Naipaul.

Early life

Anthony Wall grew up in Hackney, East London. He attended a Catholic grammar school before studying English at King's College, Cambridge.

Awards

Wall has personally been awarded three Bafta awards, three Royal Television Society awards, an Emmy, the Prix Italia, and the Special Medallion of the Telluride Film Festival.

Selected Filmography

Year Films
1980
  • Luck And Flaw
1981
  • The Comic Strip Hero
  • Today Carshalton Beeches, Tomorrow Croydon
1982
  • Desert Island Discs
  • Private Life Of The Ford Cortina
  • Upon Westminster Bridge
1983
  • Burroughs
1984
  • The Life And Times Of Don Luis Buñuel
  • Between Dreaming and Waking
  • The Everly Brothers - Songs Of Innocence And Experience
1986
  • Caribbean Nights - Maytime On The Mosqito Coast
  • Salvador Dalí
1987
  • How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria
1989
1993
  • Tales Of Rock And Roll (Part I) – "Peggy Sue"
  • Tales Of Rock And Roll (Part II) – "Heartbreak Hotel"
  • Tales Of Rock And Roll (Part III) – "Walk On The Wildside"
  • Tales Of Rock And Roll (Part IV) – "Highway 61 Revisited"
1994
  • Philip K. Dick
1995
  • The Peter Sellers Story
1998
  • The Brian Epstein Story (Two Parts)
1999
  • Looking For The Iron Curtain
2001
  • Sykes and A Day
  • The Private Dirk Bogarde (Part I)
  • The Private Dirk Bogarde (Part II)
2003
  • Dylan Thomas – Grave To Cradle
2004
  • Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus
2005
  • Dylan in the Madhouse
2006
  • Pete Doherty
2007
  • The Archers
  • Bob Marley’s Exodus ’77
2008
  • Cab Driver
  • Paul Scofield

References

  1. ↑ Wall, Anthony (22 October 1989). "A Traveller's Tale". An Arena Special:Slim Gaillard's Civilisation. Episode 1. BBC Two. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Wall, Anthony (29 October 1989). "How High The Moon". An Arena Special:Slim Gaillard's Civilisation. Episode 2. BBC Two. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  3. ↑ Wall, Anthony (5 November 1989). "My Dinner With Dizzy". An Arena Special:Slim Gaillard's Civilisation. Episode 3. BBC Two. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
  4. ↑ Wall, Anthony (12 November 1989). "Everything's OK In The UK". An Arena Special:Slim Gaillard's Civilisation. Episode 4. BBC Two. Retrieved 10 December 2015.

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