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Robert MacNeil

Acting Born Jan 19, 1931 Montreal, Quebec, Canada 17 credits

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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Known for

Film

Tin Cup

as Self - Moderator

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

as Self – Host (uncredited)

Deadly Games

as Player King

Full filmography

  • PBS News Hour (1975) as Self - Anchor
  • Washington Week with The Atlantic (1967) as Self - Moderator
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) as Self – Host (uncredited)
  • The American President (2000) as James Monroe
  • Commitment to Life (2023) as Self (archive)
  • Hamlet (2000) as Player King
  • Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy (1993) as Self - MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, PBS
  • Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie (1988) as Self
  • An Empire of Reason (1988) as Self
  • America at a Crossroads (2007)
  • The Violent Universe (1969) as Host
  • Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' (1994) as Host
  • Do You Speak American? (2005) as Robert MacNeil
  • Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater (2007) as Self
  • JFK: Breaking the News (2003) as Self (archive footage)
  • The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed (1977) as Narrator
  • Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age (1997) as Narrator