Mini Biography
In 1977, aged 8, Declan was taken to the cinema for the first time. He queued for hours. Once eventually inside, he began, as he thought you were supposed to, to run up and down the aisles playing aeroplanes with a total stranger. The film started and as the Star Destroyer chased the Rebel blockade-runner across the screen, he became transfixed, mesmerised by the spectacle. Star Wars was his introduction into cinema.
Poor Declan! Intellectually we must admit, he was not of much importance. He never said a brilliant or even ill natured thing in his life. Ultimately he became nothing, a delightful, ineffectual young man with a perfect profile and no profession - Obviously, realising his own shortcomings he made the natural and seamless transition into directing.
After a heartbreaking - yet much deserved divorce, Declan returned to education at the tender age of 26 - by embedding himself into the Oxford School of Drama. However, this only convinced him that the world wasn't yet ready for his unique anti-acting style, so after this brief incarceration and whilst still remaining painfully under educated and overdressed, he graced his presence upon Bournemouth Film School.
Earning a place on the prestigious The Fuji Film Scholarship allowed Declan to make his first narrative film; A Frozen Chicken Saves the Soaps Day - the film was honoured to be invited to many of the major European film festivals. He is also rumoured to have directed the satirical homage 'Potemkin: The Runner's Cut', starring Charles Dance, which also became entrenched in the International festival circuit.
A commission to co-pen two historically drama epics kept Declan in Liquorice Allsorts. Brittania (about Boadicea) and Conqueror (unsurprisingly about William the Conqueror). As an antidote he wrote a disturbing tale of underground boxing Pit Bull and neo-noir thriller Fallen Angel.
With his hat at a jaunty angle, Declan took a directing secondment into network television drama on UK cop show The Bill - which resulted in a short-listing in the New Director (Fiction) category at the BAFTA Television Craft Awards. Another BAFTA short listing followed for My Parents are Aliens - which undoubtedly helped Declan become a regular director on several prime-time continuing dramas across all UK terrestrial networks: (Casualty, Heartbeat, Bad Girls. etc)
2006 saw Declan move into 'Single Dramas' with feature length psychological thriller Wire in the Blood, BBC's flagship Robin Hood and an adaptation of an Andy McNab novella The Grey Man. 2007 will begin with drama-mystery True Dare Kiss.
Fuelled by delusions of adequacy and ideas far above his station, Declan has confounded his birth mother with the formation of a film & television production company '4th Wall Films Ltd'.
Mini Biography By:
Wilbour