Robert MacNeil
- Acting
- January 19, 1931 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- April 12, 2024
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.
Known for
Filmography
- Commitment to Life · Self
- Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater · Self
- America at a Crossroads
- Do You Speak American? · Robert MacNeil, Writer
- JFK: Breaking the News · Self
- Hamlet · Player King
- The American President · James Monroe
- Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age · Narrator
- Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' · Host
- Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy · Self
- Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie · Self
- An Empire of Reason · Self
- The Story of English · Writer
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy · Self
- The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed · Narrator
- PBS News Hour · Self, Creator
- The Violent Universe · Host
- Washington Week with The Atlantic · Self