Robert MacNeil

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

9.7
Washington Week with The Atlantic
1967
5.7
PBS News Hour
1975
7.6
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1979
5.8
Hamlet
2000
8.0
The American President
2000
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
6.5
Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
1994
5.8
Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy
1993
Commitment to Life
2023
7.0
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
1988
10.0
America at a Crossroads
2007
7.8
Do You Speak American?
2005
6.0
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
2007
The Violent Universe
1969
10.0
JFK: Breaking the News
2003
An Empire of Reason
1988
Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age
1997
The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
8.0
The Lions of Capitalism: Some Call It Greed
1977