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
1971
PBS News Hour
1975
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979
The American President
2000
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
1988
Commitment to Life
2023
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993
Hamlet
2000
An Empire of Reason
1988
America at a Crossroads
2007
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
1994
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
2007

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
17
Writing
2
2023
Commitment to Life
as Self (archive)
2007
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
as Self
2007
America at a Crossroads
2005
Do You Speak American?
as Robert MacNeil
2003
JFK: Breaking the News
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Hamlet
as Player King
2000
The American President
as James Monroe
1997
Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age
as Narrator
1994
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
as Host
1993
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
as Self - MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, PBS
1988
An Empire of Reason
as Self
1988
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
as Self
1979
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
as Self – Host (uncredited)
1977
The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
as Narrator
1975
PBS News Hour
as Self - Anchor
1971
Washington Week with The Atlantic
as Self - Moderator
1969
The Violent Universe
as Host