Michael Feeney Callan - Biography

Michael Feeney Callan was born in Dublin and started his career as a poet. He won the Hennessy Literary Award for his early fiction and wrote the drama series THE BURKE ENIGMA, which was RTE's first crime fiction series, in 1979. After a stint with BBC Television in London as a story editor, he scripted LWT's action series THE PROFESSIONALS and wrote a number of books for BBC Publications. Having published his novel, LOVERS AND DANCERS in 1981, Callan returned to Dublin to work on scripts for RTE and ITV. His play LOVE IS, starred Gabriel Byrne, and was directed by John McColgan.

Subsequently he adapated Frederick Forsyth Stories for Mobil Showcase in the United States. In the middle eighties he was one of the team which, in partnership with MTM Hollywood, purchased and reactivated Ardmore Film Studios in Bray, where he was based until the early nineties. In the nineties, Callan directed a number of documentaries and television series, among them MY RIVIERA, starring Roger Moore, THE BEACH BOYS 30th ANNIVERSARY film and a documentary on animator Don Bluth.

Michael recently had an exhibition of his paintings and scultings at the Blue Leaf Gallery in Dublin in May. The exhibition was called 'A Workshop In France'. Michael's novel 'Did You Miss Me?' was recently published by Crysis Books.

He has also written biographies of Anthony Hopkins, Julie Christie and Richard Harris and this October, Virgin Publishing will issue a revised edition of his best-selling biography of Sean Connery. His new study of Robert Redford, written with the actor-director-activist's support, will be published by Knopf in 2003