Michael Sayers (19 December 1911 – 2 May 2010) was an Irish poet, playwright, writer and journalist whose books co-authored with Albert E. Kahn made him a target of US blacklisting during the McCarthyism era of the 1950s.

He wrote scripts for TV in the 1950s, and as a screenwriter in the 1960s for movies including James Bond film Casino Royale.

Orage, Sayers wound up sharing a flat with fellow writers Rayner Heppenstall and Eric Blair ("George Orwell").

[2][3][4] In 1939, Sayers worked for Friday (magazine)[4] and investigated pro-Nazi activities (e.g., Henry Ford[3]) in the United States.

[1] In March 1944, Sayers published a four-part series of articles entitled "Rise of Anti-Semitic Fifth Column in Eire" in PM newspaper.

The title of one article was "Truth About Nazi Espionage in Eire: Irish Terrorists Work Directly Under Hitler's Order."

In the later 1940s, Sayers helped inaugurate live television by writing plays for NBC for stars like Rex Harrison and Boris Karloff.

Sayers seemed to escape anti-Communist efforts in theater (e.g., Maria Duce's Catholic Cinema and Theatre Patrons Association) when his play Kathleen ("a light romantic comedy") debuted in Dublin in the mid-1950s.

[4] In the 1950s he lived in France and, under the pseudonym "Michael Connor"[2] he wrote plays for BBC television's Armchair Theatre.

In the 1980s, Sayers moved to New York City to stay[3] and spent the rest of his life writing poems and plays and teaching screenwriting until shortly before his death.

[1][2][3][4] At his death, the UK's The Independent wrote of him: "Sayers had a sharp political intelligence and spoke of his persecution in America with realism and resignation.