Canon Doyle

1951, Gary L. Keady aka Canon Doyle was born in Kingsford, in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. He attended Sydney Grammar School and in 1975 left the family opal business to pursue a career in the arts.

Gary is an accomplished and qualified writer, producer, director, film editor and composer with a large range of credits in television, film, sound recordings and composing. He has created original programming, and has successfully sold his own work around the world.

Gary wrote and directed the award winning Australian science fiction feature film ‘Sons of Steel’, and the 52 episode international television science fiction comedy series ‘P-Max’.

He was awarded an Associate Aesthetics & Visual Literacy accreditation, by the University of New South Wales Centre for South Pacific Studies for writing the screenplay 'Sons of Steel', which contributed to ending French Nuclear Testing in the Pacific.

Gary has the degree of Master of Arts (writing) from Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia.

Gary has a rich canvas of life experiences from which to draw his stories, after living in Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, UK, USA, Brazil, Chile, and having troweled the pool halls of life and dens of iniquity. He has produced records, managed artists and made music videos through the vibrant times of the 70s and 80s, and had the haircuts to match.