RICK McCALLUM - Producer 

Owner:  Rick McCallum / Medium: Colored Pencil, Paint and Marker Pen on heavy, acid free paper / Year: 2005 / © Copyright: Mark Raats

Rick McCallum began his career as a producer working with one of Britain's most esteemed screenwriters, the late Dennis Potter, on the screen adaptation

of  Pennies From Heaven, starring Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters. McCallum and Potter then reunited on the acclaimed six-part BBC series The

Singing Detective. McCallum has also established a close working relationship with director Nicholas Roeg and produced two of Roeg's films, Track 29

and Castaway. Other film credits include Dennis Potter's Blackeyes, Neil Simon's I Ought To Be In Pictures, Heading Home starring Gary Oldman with a

screenplay by playwright David Hare who also  directed the film, and Strapless also written and directed by Hare, with Blair Brown and Bridget Fonda.

Another of McCallum's pictures, Dreamchild, written by Mr. Potter, won three BAFTA awards and an Evening Standard Award for Best Actress (Coral Browne).

For television, McCallum has produced the HBO film On Tidy Endings, written by Harvey Fierstein and starring Fierstein and Stockard Channing. The

production received four cable ACE Awards, including Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay. He has also produced the Rolling Stones' music video

Undercover, which won the MTV Award for Best Video of the decade. Since 1990, McCallum has worked only with writer/director George Lucas. The two have

collaborated on the feature film Radioland Murders, and the critically acclaimed TV series, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. This series, filmed

over a period of four years in 27 countries, received 26 Emmy nominations and won 11 Emmy Awards. It also won the 1993 Banff Award for Best Continuing

Series and received a 1993 Golden Globe nomination for Best Dramatic Series. Directors included: Bille August, Mike Newell, Nic Roeg, Carl Schultz,

Simon Wincer, David Hare, Deepa Mehta, Rene Manzor, Gavin Millar, and Terry Jones. McCallum produced the restoration and enhancement work

done on the phenomenally  successful Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition. Rick McCallum has also produced the first three films in the Star Wars

trilogy - The Phantom Menace, The Attack of the Clones and The Revenge of the Sith

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