Robert MacNeil
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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
Credits

Hamlet (2000)
as Player King

Commitment to Life (2023)
as Self (archive)

Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy (1993)
as Self - MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, PBS

Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie (1988)
as Self
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' (1994)
as Host

An Empire of Reason (1988)
as Self

The Violent Universe (1969)
as Host

JFK: Breaking the News (2003)
as Self (archive footage)

Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater (2007)
as Self
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




