Colin Callender Biography

Fast Facts

• Former president of HBO Films
• Also a trustee at NYU Tisch School of The Arts, the American Cinematheque, and the New York branch of the British Academy Film and Television Arts
• Chairman of Playground Entertainment, a production company for film, TV and theater
• Is a board member at The Public Theater in N․Y․, Philip Seymour Hoffman's Labyrinth Theater Company, The Creative Coalition and the American Friends of The National Film School
• Earned his BA with Honors in Philosophy and Politicis at the University of East Anglia
• Married attorney Elizabeth Gaine and has three children, one from a prior marriage
• Once a member of Britain's National Youth Theatre, he began working as a stage manager at London's Royal Court Theatre, then shifted to Granada Television before becoming the managing director at Primetime Television Ltd․, the leading independent production company in the UK, in 1979
• Multi-award-winning executive producer whose work includes TV's "The White Queen," "Tsunami: The Aftermath," "Doomsday Gun," "Criminal Justice" and many other TV movies and series