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Robert MacNeil
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American writer and journalist (1931–2024)
Film & TV
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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
- Commitment to Life — Self (archive)2023
- Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater — Self2007
- America at a Crossroads2007
- Do You Speak American? — Robert MacNeil2005
- JFK: Breaking the News — Self (archive footage)2003
- Hamlet — Player King2000
- The American President — James Monroe2000
- Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age — Narrator1997
- Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' — Host1994
- Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy — Self - MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, PBS1993
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Robert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Montreal
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Carleton University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- literature
- Image
- Robert MacNeil accepting Cronkite Award.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1931-01-19
- start of work period
- 1956-00-00
- date of death
- 2024-04-12
- name in native language
- Robert MacNeil
- end of work period
- 2020-00-00
- Commons category
- Robert MacNeil
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