Ian MacNeill

Background

Ian MacNeill was born in 1919, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Education

Ian attended McMaster University.

Career

Ian MacNeill worked as a reporter at Daily Press, Timmins, Canada, as well as at Daily Star, Toronto, Canada. He also worked in public relations in Toronto and as a prospector in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Ian also served as an executive, director, and producer at the National Film Board of Canada. MacNeill also was a freelance writer.

MacNeill’s television work often concerns issues of importance to Canadian society. Among MacNeill’s more noted works is Lewis Mumford on the City, a six-part documentary on aspects of modern urban society as articulated and analyzed by the renowned urban planner. The series covers the history of cities and explores the contradictory nature - both creative and destructive - of urban living in the twentieth century. Also, of note is MacNeill’s Freud: The Hidden Nature of Man, which dramatizes Freud’s background as well as his personal life and ground-breaking psychological theories.

Achievements

• In his long career with the National Film Board of Canada, Ian MacNeill has written, produced, and directed numerous short documentary films for television broadcast. He has also written the script for a feature film on Freud as well as a novel.
  
  The Battle for Saltbucket Beach, MacNeill’s first attempt at fiction, won the Gibson Award for best first Canadian novel.

Works

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  • Freud: The Hidden Nature of Man

Connections

Ian MacNeill was married twice. He has a daughter, Kate.

Daughter:

Kate MacNeill

References

• Canada writes!: The members' book of the Writers' Union of Canada
  1977