Acting
Robert MacNeil
Also Known As: Robin MacNeil
Birth Date
January 19, 1931
Death Date
April 12, 2024
(passed away at 93)
Place of Birth
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Biography
Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil OC (1931-2024), often known as Robin MacNeil, was a Canadian-American journalist, writer, and television news anchor. He partnered with Jim Lehrer to create the landmark public television news program The Robert MacNeil Report in 1975. MacNeil co-anchored the program until 1995.
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Washington Week with The Atlantic
Self - Moderator
1967 • 4 episodes
PBS News Hour
Self - Anchor
1975 • 13 episodes
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Self – Host (uncredited)
1979 • 6 episodes
The American President
James Monroe
2000 • 10 episodes
Hamlet
Player King
2000
Commitment to Life
Self (archive)
2023
America at a Crossroads
2007 • 29 episodes
An Empire of Reason
Self
1988
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
Self
1988
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Self - MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, PBS
1993
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
Self
2007
Do You Speak American?
Robert MacNeil
2005 • 3 episodes
The Violent Universe
Host
1969
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
Host
1994
JFK: Breaking the News
Self (archive footage)
2003
The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
Narrator
1977
Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age
Narrator
1997