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- David Callan is an actor and standup comedian based in Sydney, Australia. He is a former employee of ASIO; his comedy material is partly based on his experiences as a spy.
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Callan is a British action - drama spy television series created by James Mitchell, first airing between 1967 and 1972. It starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, an agent of a state secret service dealing with internal security threats to the United Kingdom.
With Edward Woodward, Russell Hunter, Lisa Langdon, Anthony Valentine. David Callan is the top agent/assassin for the Security Service (British counterintelligence), but he is an embittered man who performs his duties "for Queen and country" under duress.
- (862)
- 1967-07-08
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- 60
Edward Woodward is the eponymous hero, David Callan, an agent employed by "The Section", a shadowy arm of the British intelligence services during the Cold War.
Mitchell's character, David Callan, was as far removed from the world of 007 as one could imagine. Born in South Shields in 1926, the year of the General Strike, James Mitchell was the son of a union activist and self-taught intellectual who worked his way from shipyard fitter to city mayor.
The series starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, a reluctant professional killer for a shadowy branch of the British Government's intelligence services known as 'the Section'. Callan is the title of a British television series set in the murky world of espionage.
Surly, complex and ferociously downbeat, David Callan is a working class, former soldier recruited into a very dirty section of British Intelligence to become its most efficient assassin. He has many enemies and very few friends.
David Callan is an actor and standup comedian based in Sydney, Australia. He is a former employee of ASIO; his comedy material is partly based on his experiences as a spy.
