Peter MacNeill

Peter MacNeill
Peter MacNeill
	MacNeill in 2011
Born	New Brunswick, Canada
Other names	Peter MacNeil; Peter Macneill
Years active	1973–present
Awards	Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role; 1997 The Hanging Garden Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role; 2003 The Eleventh Hour Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series; 2008 Victor

Peter MacNeill is a Canadian film and television actor and voice-over artist who has starred in numerous television series and films.^[1]

His film credits have included The Hanging Garden (for which MacNeill won a Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1997),^[2] Geraldine's Fortune, Crash, Dog Park, Open Range, A History of Violence, and Regression.

On television, he has had roles in Queer as Folk (as Carl Horvath), Katts and Dog (as Sgt. Callahan), Traders (as Frank Larkin), The Eleventh Hour (as Warren Donohue), PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (as Ray Donahue) Call Me Fitz (as Ken Fitzpatrick), and The Good Witch series (as George O'Hanrahan).^[3] He is a two-time Gemini Award winner.

In January 2023, he was named the winner of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television's Earle Grey Award for lifetime achievement in acting at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards.^[4]

Selected filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1974	Why Rock the Boat?	Peterson
1976	Strange Shadows in an Empty Room	Llewelyn
1977	Cathy's Curse	Christopher Gimble
1977	Rabid	Cargo Loader
1977	Spinnolio		Short film
1977	One Man	Jack Williamson
1978	Blackout	Carter
1981	Kings and Desperate Men	George
1984	That's My Baby!	Donut Bum
1986	A Judgement in Stone	William
1989	Judge Denied	Harry Wheaton
1989	Physical Evidence	Graham Brannigan
1989	Renegades	Denny Random
1990	Stella	Bobby
1990	Whispers	Frank
1991	Body Parts	Drunk Man
1991	The Events Leading Up to My Death	Dad
1995	Butterbox Babies	William Young
1996	Crash	Colin Seagrave
1997	The Hanging Garden	Whiskey Mac	Genie Award winning role
1998	Blind Faith	Captain Roy McCully
1998	Simon Birch	Mr. Birch
1998	Dog Park	Neighbour
1999	Resurrection	Captain Whippley
2000	Frequency	Butch Foster
2000	Violet	Rusty
2001	The Caveman's Valentine	Cork
2001	Angel Eyes	Lt. Dennis Sanderman
2001	Who Is Cletis Tout?	Detective Tripp
2003	Open Range	Mack
2003	Luck	Dad
2004	Geraldine's Fortune	Harry Liddle
2005	A History of Violence	Sheriff Sam Carney
2005	Cinderella Man	Electric Man
2006	The Marsh	Philip Manville
2007	Talk to Me	Warden Cecil Smithers
2007	Late Fragment	Christian
2007	The Stone Angel	Jason Currie
2007	The Secret	Dr. Christopher Bray
2007	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl	The Sheriff
2009	The Cry of the Owl	Sam Rhodes
2009	Leslie, My Name Is Evil	The Judge
2010	My Family's Secret	Paul Darcile
2013	The Hunting Season	Jack
2013	Tru Love	Richard
2014	The Journey Home	Albert Speck
2015	Let's Rap	Victor Brady
2015	The Exorcism of Molly Hartley	Chaplain Henry Davies
2015	Regression	Police Chief Cleveland
2016	First Round Down	Coach
2017	Away Home	John McNeil	Short film
2017	Cardinals	Jim Walker
2018	An Audience of Chairs	Ian
2019	She Never Died	Detective Godfrey
2020	The Kid Detective	Principal Erwin
2020	Life in a Year	James Maxwell
2021	Nightmare Alley	Judge Kimball

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984–86	The Edison Twins	Mr. Edison	30 episodes
1985	Star Wars: Droids	Jord Dusat	10 episodes
1986	One Police Plaza	David Ancorie	Television film
1987–88	Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future	Maj. Matthew "Hawk" Masterson	22 episodes
1988-89	Katts and Dog	Sgt. Callahan	44 episodes
1989-1991	Babar	Additional voices	65 episodes
1990-92	E.N.G.	Richard/Fraser/Paul Richter/John Malik	4 episodes
1993	Road to Avonlea	Emmett Grier	1 episode
1994	Lives of Girls and Women	Tom Jordan	Television film
1996-99	PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal	Ray Donahue	28 episodes
1998	The Long Island Incident	Dennis McCarthy	Television film
2001	Doc	Gus Wanson	2 episodes
2002-04	The Eleventh Hour	Warren Donahue	4 episodes
2002-05	Queer as Folk	Detective Carl Horvath	24 episodes
2005	Trump Unauthorized	Joseph Eichler	Television film
2008	Victor	Mel Davis	Television film
2008	Mayerthorpe	Superintendent	Television film
2010-13	Call Me Fitz	Ken Fitzpatrick	Television film
2010-15	Rookie Blue	Tommy McNally	6 episodes
2013	Defiance	Garret Clancy	3 episodes
2015	Rogue	General Howard	5 episodes
2015-16	This Life	Gerald Lawson	20 episodes
2015-17	Good Witch	George O'Hanrahan	18 episodes
2018	My Secret Valentine	Truman Grange	Hallmark Movie
2018	Private Eyes	Murray Clavin	1Episode
2019	Titans	Lionel Luthor	1 episode
2021-	Moonshine	Ken Finley-Cullen	Series lead

Video games

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist (2013) as Secretary of Defense

Awards and nominations

1994 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer (nominated)
1997 Genie Award for Best Supporting Actor: The Hanging Garden (won)
1998 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program of Miniseries: Giant Mine (nominated)
2003 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role: The Eleventh Hour (won)
2008 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program of Miniseries: Victor (won)
2011 Gemini Award Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role or Guest Role in a Comedic Series: Call Me Fitz (nominated)
2011 Gemini Award Best Ensemble Performance in a Comedy Program or Series: Call Me Fitz (nominated)
2015 Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role or Guest Role in a Comedic Series: Call Me Fitz (nominated)

References

^ "Peter MacNeill - Cast - This Life". CBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 4 September 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
^ "Peter MacNeill". Northernstars.ca. Archived from the original on 4 September 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
^ "Cast - Peter MacNeill - Good Witch". Hallmark Channel. Archived from the original on 4 September 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
^ Etan Vlessing, "Ryan Reynolds, Simu Liu, Catherine O’Hara to Receive Honorary Canadian Screen Awards" Archived 2023-01-18 at the Wayback Machine. The Hollywood Reporter, January 18, 2023.

External links

Peter MacNeill at IMDb

[1] "Peter MacNeill - Cast - This Life". CBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 4 September 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2018.

[2] "Peter MacNeill". Northernstars.ca. Archived from the original on 4 September 2023. Retrieved 20 August 2019.

[3] "Cast - Peter MacNeill - Good Witch". Hallmark Channel. Archived from the original on 4 September 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2018.

[4] Etan Vlessing, "Ryan Reynolds, Simu Liu, Catherine O’Hara to Receive Honorary Canadian Screen Awards" Archived 2023-01-18 at the Wayback Machine. The Hollywood Reporter, January 18, 2023.

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