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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 19, 1931
Place of Birth
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Also Known As
- Robin MacNeil
Robert MacNeil
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 - Movies
Hamlet
as Player King
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
as Self
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
as Self - MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, PBS
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Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
as Host
An Empire of Reason
as Self
The Violent Universe
as Host
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
as Self
JFK: Breaking the News
as Self (archive footage)
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The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
as Narrator
Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age
as Narrator
