Colin Callender

Quick Facts

Full Name	Colin Callender
Occupation	Television Producer
Date Of Birth	May 1, 1952(1952-05-01)
Age	72
Birthplace	London
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Taurus

Colin Callender Biography

Colin Callender is one of the most popular and richest Television Producer who was born on May 1, 1952 in London, England, United Kingdom.

Callender started in the entertainment industry as a member of Britain’s National Youth Theatre and began his production career in 1974 at the Royal Court Theatre in London as stage manager working with directors such as Mike Leigh, David Hare and Sam Shepard. Later he joined Granada Television as a graduate trainee where he worked on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof the Granada co- production with NBC starring Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner and Laurence Olivier.

In 1978 Callender founded Primetime Television where he quickly established himself as one of the UK’s leading television and film producers. At Primetime he pioneered the pre-selling and co-producing of UK drama with foreign broadcasters. When the UK’s fourth network Channel Four was created, Primetime was the first independent production company to be commissioned by the new channel with the television adaptation of the RSC’s groundbreaking nine-hour stage play The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby. It was Callender’s first credit as a producer and he went on to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries in a category that included other nominees The Winds Of War and The Thorn Birds.

Colin Callender Net Worth

Colin Callender is one of the richest Television Producer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Colin Callender 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sir Colin Nigel Callender CBE (born May 1952) is an English television, film and theater producer. He is the CEO at Playground Entertainment, a production company with offices in New York and London.

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In 2009, Callender left HBO Films and moved to New York to produce theatre. He founded Playground in 2012.

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Craig Ranked on the list of most popular Television Producer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Colin Callender celebrates birthday on May 1 of every year.

Alongside Sonia Friedman Productions and Harry Potter Theatrical Productions, Callender is one of the producers of the two-part stage play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, an expansion of the Harry Potter franchise, which opened on July 30, 2016 in London’s Palace Theatre. In 2017, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child won nine Olivier Awards, the biggest single win ever for one production in the history of the awards. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child opened on Broadway on April 22, 2018 in the newly renovated Lyric Theatre and was nominated for ten Tony Awards and went on to win six, including Best Play. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will open in Melbourne’s Princess Theatre in early 2019, in San Francisco’s Curran Theatre in the Fall of 2019, and in Hamburg’s Mehr! Theatre in 2020.