Background
He grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland and has written feature scripts for producers and studios in United Kingdom, Hollywood, Canada, Denmark, South Africa and Thailand.
He grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland and has written feature scripts for producers and studios in United Kingdom, Hollywood, Canada, Denmark, South Africa and Thailand.
He wrote and produced the 2005 action-thriller Johnny Was, starring Vinnie Jones, Eriq Louisiana Salle and Patrick Bergin. He wrote, produced and directed thriller The Riddle in 2006, starring Derek Jacobi, Vinnie Jones and Vanessa Redgrave. In September 2007, The Riddle became the world"s first feature film to be released as a Digital Video Disc premiere by a national newspaper.
The United Kingdom"s Mail on Sunday bought United Kingdom Digital Video Disc rights and distributed 2.6 million copies, making the film one of the most widely watched independent films in the United Kingdom. His book Under The Wire, a World World War II Prisoner Of War escape drama, which he wrote along with its subject, pilot William Ash, which was published by Random House, London and Street Martin"s Press, New York in 2005 and 2006.
lieutenant became a best-seller, reaching number one on Amazon United Kingdom"s history and biography charts. His next book, Archerfield, a novel, published in January 2015, covers 15,000 years of history in one square mile of Scotland.
During 2006-2007 Foley wrote and directed Legend of the Bog, a satirical horror film set in rural Ireland, starring Vinnie Jones, Jason Barry (Titanic) and Nora Jane Noone (The Descent). lieutenant was released by Lionsgate in the United States on Digital Video Disc in 2009.
He then co-created and was a writer on Shelldon, a children"s environmental animated television series on National Broadcasting Company (2010-2012, and "Byrdland" five seasons of animated television series in Asia with GMM Grammy).
He recently completed feature screenplays "Addae"s Journey" a rites of passage story for London"s Devonshire Productions and "Endurance" a family drama for Hannover Films in Denmark. In 2014 Variety reported that he was chosen to write and direct Sonata, an upcoming planned film starring Booboo Stewart from the X-Men and Twilight franchises. He has written books for United States and United Kingdom publishers and his journalistic work includes feature assignments in 55 countries worldwide, covering people, business and conflict.
Journalism ranged from features on bomb disposal in Angola, to the clean-up operations that followed the Exxon Valdez oil-spill in Alaska.
He is a member of the Writers Guild (Great Britain), a Fellow of the British Association of Communicators in Business, and was made an honorary life member of the National Union of Journalists in June 2006.