Michael Feeney Callan

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.