David Callan is an actor and standup comedian based in Sydney, Australia. He is a former employee of

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; his comedy material is partly based on his experiences as a spy.I Spied
George Negus Tonight ABC TV, 19 July 2004. In the 2011 sitcom '' At Home with Julia'', he played the recurring role of Agent Smith, one of the Australian Federal Police agents on the Prime Minister's security detail. In 2012, he appeared in two episodes of the TV series ''

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Dave Callan David Gerard Callan (born 20 September 1975) is an Irish-born stand-up comedian, who has had a career in television and radio, and is based in Melbourne, Australia. Up until 2010 he worked as a Triple J disc jockey. Biography Callan was born ...

, another Australian standup comedian with an almost identical name. Callan has a wife and two children and lives in Sydney.

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* Australian television personalities Australian spies Living people Australian male comedians Male actors from Sydney Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-comedian-stub