Michael Feeney Callan
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Michael Feeney Callan is a novelist, filmmaker and painter. An award
winner for his short fiction, he joined BBC 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 direct a number of television programmes, among them the
celebrated bio-documentary Luke Kelly: The Performer. Callan has
published several novels and has written biographies of Sean Connery,
Julie Christie and Richard Harris. Forthcoming is his major biography
of Robert Redford. He divides his time between France and Dublin, where
he lives with his wife Ree and two children.
