David Callan David Callan 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. In the 2011 sitcom "At Home with Julia", he played the recurring role of Agent Smith, one of the Australian Federal Police agents on the Prime Minister's security detail. In 2012, he appeared in two episodes of the TV series "Rake". He is sometimes confused with Dave Callan, another Australian standup comedian with an almost identical name. Callan has a wife and two children and lives in
Michael Feeney Callan Wells. Callan's first screenplay was the crime series "The Burke Enigma", a six-hour film production for RTÉ, which starred Ray McAnally and Donal McCann, and went forward as RTÉ's drama entry for the 1979 Prix Italia. According to Callan, this work was "influenced by the film noir I loved as a kid, and by Robert Altman's (filming) style." Subsequently, Callan joined BBC television drama in London, where he story-edited the detective series "Shoestring". Simultaneously, at ITV, he wrote for the action series "The Professionals". In the 1980s, Callan collaborated with Frederick Forsyth on Public Broadcasting Service-aired adaptations of Forsyth's stories