Daniel Carney Explained

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.^[1]

Biography

Daniel Carney was born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1944, a son of a British diplomat.^[2] 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.^[3]

After his death, ownership rights in his novels and the films based on them passed to his family. His family has had some interest in re-releasing The Wild Geese from American and Australian production companies, however the options were not taken up. ^[4] 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.T

Published works

• Book: The Whispering Death (1969). 0-552-11353-0. 1980. Transworld Publishers Limited. 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.^[5]
• Book: The Wild Geese (1977). 0-552-10869-3 . 1978 . Corgi . (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).^[6]
• Book: Under a Raging Sky (1980). 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.^[7]
• Book: The Square Circle (1982). 0-553-25380-8. July 1987. Bantam Books . 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).^[8]
• Book: Macau (1985). 0-917657-10-1. 1985. D.I. Fine. is set in Macau.

External links

• • Photo of Carney's grave in Zimbabwe

Notes and References

1. Web site: We gave women back a sense of self . 29 March 2004 . Richmond and Twickenham Times. 6 September 2016.
2. Web site: Daniel Carney. 6 September 2016.
3. OBITUARYMoncur, Andrew. The Guardian (1959–2003) [London (UK)], 10 January 1987: 32.
4. family
5. Web site: The Night of the Askari. 1 February 1978. IMDb. 6 September 2016.
6. Web site: The Wild Geese. 11 November 1978. IMDb. 6 September 2016.
7. News: The Euan Lloyd Interview Part 1. Cinema Retro.
8. Web site: Wild Geese II. 18 October 1985. 6 September 2016. IMDb.