Biography
Michael Feeney Callan is an Irish novelist and poet. An award winner for his short fiction and also for non-fiction, he joined BBC television drama as a story editor, and wrote screenplays for The Professionals, and for American television.
He wrote the template Irish police drama series, The Burke Enigma, starring Donal McCann, and Love Is, starring Gabriel Byrne, and went on to write and direct a number of documentaries, among them The Beach Boys Today, a film that marked the band's 30th anniversary. He has published several novels and has written biographies of Sean Connery, Anthony Hopkins and Richard Harris. His biography of Robert Redford (Robert Redford: The Biography; Knopf, 2011) was chosen by the Sunday Times as one of its recommended Best Books of 2011. It was subsequently awarded the Lucien Barriere Prize for Literature by the jury of the Deauville American Film Festival. In 2013, he published his second volume of poetry, An Argument for Sin.
Filmography
all 8
Movies 7
self 5
Writer 2
Director 1
TV Shows 1
The Sean Connery Paradox (2022)
Robert Redford: The Golden Look (2019)
Hellraisers (2000)
The Beach Boys Today (1993)
Sean Connery: Private (1993)
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GenderMale
Birthday1901-01-01 (123 years old)
Birth PlaceDublin, Ireland
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