Tony Klinger

Klinger's debut play "A Tired Heart & The Big C" opens in October and his new novel Under God's Table will be published later in 2015. His last book, The Butterfly Boy was published in March 2013. and that followed his book Twilight of the Gods about his production of The Who film, The Kids Are Alright.
Currently Tony is in development of the screenplay to produce the film of Richard McCann's best selling true life book Just A Boy.
Tony was born in London. At school he won prizes for his writing and with some friends ran a successful underground school magazine.
By the age of 18 Tony was making films that received wide public distribution. Over a distinguished career Tony headed several media companies both in the UK and USA. He has made more than 500 media productions of all types and written articles, columns, blogs, screenplays. He worked in a producing capacity on films such as The Festival Game, Extremes, The Butterfly Ball, The Kids Are Alright, Shout At The Devil, Rachel's Man, Riding High, Barcelona Kill and many others.
Klinger also run Film Production courses at the UK’s renowned Bournemouth and Northern Film Schools and was Director of the Media Production Centre at the University of East London.
Tony’s most recent music video, Never Listen To Rumours featuring Honest John Plain received half a million views in its first two weeks of it’s late September 2012 release. Klinger has embraced social media and already enjoys approximately 80,000 followers.
Tony lives in the countryside near London and is currently directing a film about his late father, the legendary film producer Michael Klinger, The Man Who Got Carter, and preparing to produce The Butterfly Boy as a television mini-series.