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The Last Castle, filming in Tennessee, during the spring of 2001 (Courtesy of Robert Redford. Photograph: DreamWorks SKG)
With Brad Pitt in Tony Scott’s Spy Game, 2001 (Courtesy of Robert Redford. Photograph: Universal Pictures)
Directing Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise in Lions for Lambs (2007), a film Redford saw as a stimulant for debate about social responsibility (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Wildwood Enterprises. Photograph: United Artists Pictures)
Playing his age with dignity and distinction in the ill-fated An Unfinished Life, British Columbia, Canada, 2005 (Courtesy of Robert Redford. Photograph: Miramax Pictures)
The director (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Wildwood Enterprises)
After he received his lifetime achievement Academy Award, in the company of Barbra Streisand, 2002 (Courtesy of Robert Redford)
An unending political passion: with candidate Ted Wilson, following the results of his state senate race. Salt Lake City, November 1982 (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Sundance archive)
A recent contemplative moment (Courtesy of Robert Redford/Sundance archive)
With Sibylle Szaggars—Bylle— on vacation in 2008. They would marry in 2009. (Shauna Redford Schlosser, Sundance archive)
Family show: Jamie and daughter, Lena, accompany Bylle and Bob to the opening of Bylle’s art exhibition in Sonoma, 2007. (Sundance archive/Sonoma magazine)
ALSO BY MICHAEL FEENEY CALLAN
BIOGRAPHY
Anthony Hopkins
Richard Harris
Sean Connery
Julie Christie
FICTION
Did You Miss Me?
Lovers and Dancers
POETRY
Fifty Fingers
A Note About the Author
Michael Feeney Callan won the Hennessy Literary Award for his early fiction. He wrote Ireland’s first crime detection drama series, The Burke Enigma, starring Donal McCann, and was a story editor at BBC television in London. He wrote for the thriller series The Professionals, and in the United States he adapted Frederick Forsyth’s stories for Mobil Showcase Network. He was a partner in the company that acquired and reactivated Ireland’s Armore Studios in the eighties, and he wrote, produced and directed television films with the Beach Boys, Perry Como and animators Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. Callan has published biographies of Anthony Hopkins, Julie Christie, Richard Harris and Sean Connery, as well as novels and poetry. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.