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
Callan (TV series) File for Callan", also by James Mitchell. However, the film's credits give only the novel as source (no mention is made of the pilot teleplay or the TV series), and identify the novel as "A Red File for Callan", the mild variant title under which it had been published in the United States (in 1969) by Simon & Schuster. (In 1974 Dell would reissue the book under that title in paperback, but despite coinciding with the film's release year, the edition gives no hint of being a tie-in.) Callan's boss "Charlie" Hunter was played by Eric Porter and Meres was