---
name: "Michael Colleary"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-colleary"
fi1m_id: "michael-colleary"
imdb_id: "nm0171718"
tmdb_id: 11403
wikidata_id: "Q3736176"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 66
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T02:21:48.122864+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Michael Colleary

## Identity

Michael Colleary

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-colleary
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-colleary
- **IMDb ID:** nm0171718
- **TMDB ID:** 11403
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3736176
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Colleary, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3736176, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0171718/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11403

Writer. Born 1 January 1953 in United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1953, United States
- **Active:** 1997–2001
- **Average Fi1m score:** 66, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 84 (1), 2000s 48 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Colleary, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3736176, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0171718/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/11403

## Biography

Michael Colleary is an American screenwriter, film producer and television writer. His credits include the screenplay for *Face/Off* (1997), the story for *Lara Croft: Tomb Raider* (2001), and writing on *Firehouse Dog* (2007) and the series *Professionals* (2020).

He frequently collaborates with Mike Werb, with whom he won a Saturn Award for the original screenplay of *Face/Off*. Colleary was born and raised in Montclair, New Jersey, the son of comedy writer Robert M. Colleary. He studied journalism at Temple University and screenwriting at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nydailynews.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Lara Croft: Tomb Raider* (2001), Fi1m 48, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/lara-croft-tomb-raider.md)
- *Face/Off* (1997), Fi1m 84, Writer, Co-Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/face-off.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Professionals* (2020), series, Writer, Teleplay, Executive Producer
- *Unnatural History* (2010), series, Writer, Teleplay
- *Firehouse Dog* (2007), Producer, Writer
- *Lara Croft: Tomb Raider* (2001), Story — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/lara-croft-tomb-raider.md)
- *Face/Off* (1997), Writer, Co-Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/face-off.md)
- *Things That Go Bump* (1997), Writer
- *Darkman III: Die Darkman Die* (1996), Writer
- *Death Wish V: The Face of Death* (1994), Story
- *The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1985), series, Writer

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