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Antony Thomas (born 26 July 1940) is an
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documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
maker,
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and
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who has made films for, among others,
Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It began its transmission on 2 November 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service ...
, the
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and HBO.


Biography

Thomas was born in
India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
. When he was six years old, he moved to
South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
. He moved again to
England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
in 1967, where he has written, directed and produced 40 major documentaries and dramas, including ''
Death of a Princess ''Death of a Princess'' is a British 1980 drama-documentary produced by ATV in cooperation with WGBH in the United States. The drama is based on the true story of Princess Mishaal, a young Saudi Arabian princess and her lover who had been pu ...
'' (1980). In 1982 Thomas and journalist David Fanning produced ''
Frank Terpil Frank Edward Terpil (1939 – March 1, 2016) was a CIA agent born in Brooklyn, New York, U.S. in 1939, who was asked to leave the agency for misconduct in 1971. He then "went rogue", going to work for Edwin P. Wilson's operations supplying arms, b ...
: Confessions of a Dangerous Man'',''Frank Terpil: Confessions of a Dangerous Man'', video on YouTube, 28'
/ref> which won the Emmy Award for best investigative documentary. Thomas wrote ''
Rhodes Rhodes (; el, Ρόδος , translit=Ródos ) is the largest and the historical capital of the Dodecanese islands of Greece. Administratively, the island forms a separate municipality within the Rhodes regional unit, which is part of the S ...
'', a 1996 British television drama based on the life of Cecil Rhodes. On 14 June 2010 the documentary film '' For Neda'', made by Thomas with the help of
Saeed Kamali Dehghan Saeed Kamali Dehghan ( fa, سعید کمالی دهقان born 1 May 1985 in Karaj, Iran)Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
ian demonstrator Neda Agha-Soltan, was released. Kamali Dehghan secretly filmed Neda's family and obtained footage of her life and death for the HBO documentary. In late February 2014, the documentary '' Secrets of the Vatican ''directed by Thomas was aired on
PBS The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is a publicly funded nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educat ...
as part of the ''
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''series.


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External links

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Anthony Thomas' Productions
Official website 1940 births Indian people of English descent Indian emigrants to South Africa White South African people British documentary film directors Emmy Award winners Living people {{UK-film-director-stub