Daniel Carney

Daniel Carney (1944–1987) was a white Zimbabwean novelist.^[1] Three of his novels have been made into films.

Biography

Daniel Carney was born in Beirut in 1944. In 1963 he settled in Rhodesia and joined the British South Africa Police, where he served for three and a half years. In 1968 he co-founded the real-estate firm Fox and Carney in Salisbury, Rhodesia.

After his death, in 1987, ownership rights of his novels and the films based on his novels passed to his family. They have consistently withheld permission to reproduce Daniel's novels, and have opposed re-release or sales of the movies based on the novels. In 2005, Tango Entertainment released a 30th anniversary edition of The Wild Geese (1978). Allied Artists, the original backers of the film, collapsed before it could be released in the United States, which accounted for poor box office receipts in the US despite being the fourteenth highest grossing film, worldwide, of 1978.

Published works

• The Whispering Death (1969) made into a movie by the name Whispering Death a.k.a. Night of the Askaris a.k.a. Albino,^[2] set in Rhodesia.
• The Wild Geese ISBN 0552108693 (originally titled The Thin White Line) (1977) made into a movie with Reginald Rose (author of 12 Angry Men) as screenplay writer.^[3] Set in the Congo.
• Under a Raging Sky (1980), set in Rhodesia. The film was optioned by the producer of The Wild Geese and Wild Geese II (Euan Lloyd) but was not filmed.^[4]
• The Square Circle (republished as The Wild Geese II and The Return of the Wild Geese ISBN 0553253808) (1982), made into a movie by the name of Wild Geese II.^[5] Set in Germany.
• Macau (1985), set in Macau.He died in 1987.

References

1. ^ "Writer Carney Dead at Age 42", Reading Eagle, 1987-01-09, http://news.google.co.uk/newspapers?id=gw0xAAAAIBAJ&sjid=u-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6359,6402758, retrieved 2010-01-06 
2. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074108/
3. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078492/
4. ^ The Euan Lloyd Interview Part 1 Cinema Retro magazine
5. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090323/

External links

• Daniel Carney at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Carney, Daniel
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Date of birth	1944
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Date of death	1987
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