Declan O'Dwyer is a writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

 Producer and film & television director.

Declan has directed an ‘afternoon play’ adaptation of an Andy McNab novella, The Grey Man and the adaptation of the Val McDermid’s Torment of Others (Best Crime Novel of the Year 1995). BBC’s flagship Robin Hood

Robin Hood

Robin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes....

(Saturn Award

Saturn Award

The Saturn Award is an award presented annually by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films to honor the top works in science fiction, fantasy, and horror in film, television, and home video. The Saturn Awards were devised by Dr. Donald A. Reed in 1972, who felt that films within...

 Nomination for Best International Series). He also went to Austin Texas to shoot TV movie Prayer of the Bone (Nominated in the ‘Crime Thriller of the Year’ awards 2008 and won an Edgar Allen Poe Award for best teleplay 2009) before directing the pilot episode of British supernatural drama Being Human

Being Human (TV series)

Being Human is a British supernatural drama television series. It was created and written by Toby Whithouse and is currently broadcast on BBC Three. The show blends elements of flatshare comedy and horror drama...

 - which went onto launch the critically acclaimed series.

Since 2009, Declan has been working as one of the core directors on medical drama Casualty.

He is the owner and executive of production outfit 4th Wall Films Ltd.

• June 2011 scheduled to be directing hard-hitting British thriller Dogs of Law starring Luke Evans
  Luke Evans (actor)
  Luke Evans is a Welsh theatre and film actor. He is known to theatregoers for his stage roles in Rent, Miss Saigon Small Change and Piaf, and to filmgoers for his roles in The Three Musketeers, Clash of the Titans, and Tamara Drewe.-Early life:Luke Evans was born and raised in Aberbargoed, a small...
  
   and Robert Carlyle
  Robert Carlyle
  Robert Carlyle, OBE is a Scottish film and television actor. He is known for a variety of roles including those in Trainspotting, Hamish Macbeth, The Full Monty, The World Is Not Enough, Angela's Ashes, The 51st State, and 28 Weeks Later...
  
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• 2012 slated to direct feature film Broken Cove. With Bernard Hill
  Bernard Hill
  Bernard Hill is a British actor of film, stage and television. In a career spanning thirty years, he is best known for playing Yosser Hughes, the troubled 'hard man' whose life is falling apart in Alan Bleasdale's groundbreaking 1980s TV drama, Boys from the Blackstuff...
  
  , Linda Bassett
  Linda Bassett
  Linda Bassett is an English actress, who is well known in the United Kingdom for her film career.Bassett was born in Kent, England to a typist mother and a police officer father. Her roles include the award-winning part of Ella Khan in the 1999 British comedy film East is East...
  
  , Danny Dyer
  Danny Dyer
  Danny Dyer is an English actor, media personality, and chairman of Greenwich Borough, a non-League football team.-Biography:Daniel John Dyer was born in Custom House, an area of East London, to Antony and Christine Dyer...
  
   and Zita Sattar
  Zita Sattar
  Zita Sattar is an English television, theatre and film actress.- Background :Zita was born in 1975 in Birmingham, England. She is of mixed heritage, her mum is British and her dad Pakistani. At aged 11, as a young amateur actress, Zita was one of the founder members of Birmingham's Central Junior...
  
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External links

• News Article: http://www.screendaily.com/news/production/luke-evans-robert-carlyle-to-star-in-dogs-of-law/5024372.article
• News Article: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/luke_evans_and_robert_carlyle_to_star_in_london_cop_thriller_dogs_of_law/