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name: "Michael Sayers"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-sayers"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "19 December 1911"
died: "2 May 2010"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-18T11:53:13.598856+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."
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# Michael Sayers

Writer. Born 19 December 1911 in Dublin, Ireland. Died 2 May 2010.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 19 December 1911, Dublin, Ireland
- **Died:** 2 May 2010
- **Also known as:** Michael Connor
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0768476/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/71657

## Biography

Michael Sayers (1911–2010) was an Irish poet, playwright, writer and screenwriter. Born in Dublin, he was educated at Trinity College Dublin, where he studied French under Samuel Beckett, and later worked in journalism and literature in Britain and the United States.

In the 1950s he was blacklisted in the United States during the McCarthy era and wrote under the pseudonym Michael Connor for British television series including episodes of *The Adventures of Robin Hood* and *The Invisible Man*. He co-authored books such as *The Great Conspiracy: The Secret War Against Soviet Russia* (1946) with Albert E. Kahn.

In the 1960s Sayers worked for producer Charles K. Feldman and contributed to the screenplay of the James Bond film *Casino Royale* (1967), credited alongside Wolf Mankowitz and John Law.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, dib.ie, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Casino Royale* (1967), Fi1m 50, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/casino-royale-1967.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

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

- *Casino Royale* (1967), Screenplay — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/casino-royale-1967.md)
- *Interpol Calling* (1959), series, Writer
- *The Adventures of William Tell* (1958), series, Writer

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