Daniel Carney

Daniel Carney (8 August 1944 – 6 January 1987) was a Rhodesian novelist. Three of his novels have been made into films. Carney was a brother of Erin Pizzey, a British writer and feminist activist.

Biography

Daniel Carney was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1944, a son of a British diplomat. In 1963, he settled in Southern Rhodesia (soon to be renamed Rhodesia) and joined the British South Africa Police (BSAP), where he served for three and a half years. In 1968, he co-founded the estate agents Fox and Carney in Salisbury, Rhodesia. He died of cancer in 1987.

After his death, ownership rights in his novels and the films based on them passed to his family. The family 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). The film had been hampered by the collapse of its American distributor, Allied Artists. As a result, the film was only partially distributed in the United States, where it was a box-office disappointment, despite being the 13th-highest-grossing film, worldwide, of 1978.

Published works

• Set in Rhodesia, the book was adapted as a 1976 movie titled Whispering Death, a.k.a. Night of the Askaris, Death in the Sun, and Albino.
• (Originally titled The Thin White Line.) Set in the Congo, it was adapted as the film The Wild Geese (1978), with a screenplay by Reginald Rose (author of 12 Angry Men).
• Set in Rhodesia, its film rights were optioned by Euan Lloyd, producer of The Wild Geese and Wild Geese II, but the project was not filmed.
• Set in Germany and republished as The Wild Geese II and The Return of the Wild Geese, the novel was adapted as a movie titled Wild Geese II (1985).
• is set in Macau.

External links

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• Photo of Carney's grave in Zimbabwe