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