Cast & creator
Robert MacNeil
Best known for Washington Week with The Atlantic, PBS News Hour, PBS News Hour
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.
Also known as: Robin MacNeil
11
film credits
9
television credits
17
1967–2023 · acting roles
7.5
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (20)
Showing 20 of 20 credits
Washington Week with The Atlantic
Self - Moderator
1967
PBS News Hour
Self - Anchor
1975PBS News Hour
Creator
1975
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Self – Host (uncredited)
1979
The American President
James Monroe
2000
Commitment to Life
Self (archive)
2023
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
Self
1988
Hamlet
Player King
2000
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
Self - MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, PBS
1993
America at a Crossroads
2007
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
Self
2007
The Story of English
Writer
1986Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
Host
1994
An Empire of Reason
Self
1988
JFK: Breaking the News
Self (archive footage)
2003
Do You Speak American?
Robert MacNeil
2005Do You Speak American?
Writer
2005
The Violent Universe
Host
1969The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
Narrator
1977
Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age
Narrator
1997