MacNeil, Robert Filmography

• Salome
  2012, role: actor , character name: Five Jews
• Scarlet Moon
  2006, role: actor , character name: Dino Dinner
• Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
  2006, role: actor
• Do You Speak American?
  2005, role: writer
• Burden of Desire
  2005, role: writer
• Do You Speak American?
  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself - Reporter
• Hamlet
  2000, role: actor , character name: Player King
• The 14th TV Academy Hall of Fame
  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself
• The 42nd Annual New York Emmy Awards
  1999, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter
• Empire of the Bay
  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself - Narrator
• Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
  1994, role: actor , character name: Host
• Bah, Humbug!: The Story of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'
  1994, role: actor , character name: Commentator
• The Odyssey of John Dos Passos
  1994, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Alistair Cooke Salute
  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself - Host
• The Panama Deception
  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Beyond 'JFK': The Question of Conspiracy
  1992, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Big Bird's Birthday or Let Me Eat Cake
  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Sesame Street, Special
  1988, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Slow Fires: On the Preservation of the Human Record
  1987, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• The Story of English
  1986, role: writer
• The Brand New Illustrated Journal of the Arts
  1982, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
  1979, role: actor , character name: Host
• The Lions of Capitalism
  1977, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Some Call It Greed
  1977, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• The Robert MacNeil Report
  1975, role: actor , character name: Himself - Co-anchor
• Action: The October Crisis of 1970
  1974, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Peer in Focus
  1971, role: actor , character name: Himself - Narrator
• London Rock
  1970, role: actor , character name: Himself - Narrator
• Election 70
  1970, role: actor , character name: Himself - Foreign Desk
• Washington Week in Review
  1967, role: actor , character name: Himself - Moderator
• Actuality Specials
  1962, role: actor
• Let's Go to the Museum
  1954, role: actor , character name: Host

Famous quotes by Robert MacNeil:

"[Television] has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world."

"Given the dozens of channels now that are doing something called news, from the serious to the comic, this is the one that has stayed absolutely gimmick-free and, therefore, its uniqueness is more apparent now, I think, than it was when we started 30 years ago,"

"It was a way to do something that seemed to be needed journalistically and yet was different from what the commercial network news (programs) were doing,"

"Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit."

"You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy."

"Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998."

"We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer."

"After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past."

"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."

"But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally and every other way. And the country had invested enormously in me."

"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."

"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"

"Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world."

"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."

"And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer."

"I never wanted to be a pundit."

"I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary."

"The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons."