Daniel MacIvor

Born: 1962-07-23

Daniel MacIvor (born 23 July 1962) is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and then at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario. MacIvor started the theatre company da da kamera in Toronto - in residence at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre - for whom he has written, directed, and acted. He is now one of Canada's best known playwrights. His plays include Never Swim Alone, This is a Play, Monster, Marion Bridge, You are Here, Cul-de-sac, and A Beautiful View. Five of MacIvor's plays were published as I Still Love You in 2006, in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of da da kamera, (Never Swim Alone, The Soldier Dreams, You Are Here, In on It, and A Beautiful View), and won MacIvor a coveted Governor General's Award for Drama. Recently, MacIvor has written, co-written and directed several independent films, which are usually made in his home province of Nova Scotia. They include Past Perfect, Marion Bridge, Whole New Thing and Wilby Wonderful. His appearances include The Five Senses. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel MacIvor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


Placeholder

Beefcake

as Bob Mizer
Released: 1998-09-01

A look at the 1950s muscle men's magazines and the representative industry which were popular...

Movie page

Growing Op

as Charles
Released: 2008-11-21

The story of a teenage boy coming of age in a suburban grow-operation, where every day is...

Movie page

Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer

as Bus Driver
Released: 1993-02-28

A look into the life of troubled former hockey player Brian Spencer, who got into problems both...

Movie page

The Five Senses

as Robert
Released: 1999-05-18

Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a...

Movie page

Hunting Season

as Dr. Martin
Released: 2013-09-28

Samantha visits an old family house and comes face-to-face with a buried and potentially fatal past.

Movie page

Wilby Wonderful

as Stan Lastman
Released: 2004-09-13

A day-in-the-life dark comedy concerning a group of islanders, their respective secrets, and one...

Movie page

The Last Supper

as Dr. Parthens
Released: 1996-11-01

Chris is a dancer dying of AIDS. He has chosen euthanasia to end his suffering. With the...

Movie page

Whole New Thing

as Don Grant
Released: 2005-09-15

Socially isolated by his parents, an androgynous teen enrolls in high school and develops a...

Movie page

Trigger

as Host
Released: 2010-09-12

Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in...

Movie page

Justice Denied

as Jimmy MacNeil
Released: 1989-09-24

Donald Marshall is imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit.

Movie page

I Love a Man in Uniform

as Director
Released: 1993-09-10

Henry Adler, an outwardly normal banker, yearns to make it in show business and still answers to...

Movie page

Bubbles Galore

as Godfrey Montana
Released: 1996-08-25

A bisexual female pornographer searches for sexual and economic independence in a male-dominated...

Movie page

Touch

as Doctor
Released: 2002-01-10

A boy, abducted and abused for eight years returns home to find that the experience remains an...

Movie page

Eisenstein

as Stalker
Released: 2000-09-08

A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.

Movie page

Uncut

as Newscaster
Released: 1997-03-23

Circumcision and artistic freedom concern three homosexuals, denied communication during a...

Movie page

House

as Victor
Released: 1995-01-01

Fresh from group therapy, a man shares odd anecdotes with ten others inside a church.

Movie page

Boys Briefs 2

as Doctor (segment "Touch")
Released: 2002-12-20

The long-awaited sequel to Boys Briefs, the successful compilation of six outstanding short...

Movie page

The Fairy Who Didn't Want To Be A Fairy Anymore

as The Fairy
Released: 1992-09-11

Mump & Smoot find a book and start to read it. The book's comic & tragic story is about a fairy...

Movie page

Dear John

as George
Released: 1988-01-01

A girl who is stalked by a psychotic manic hides out with transvestites who aren't at all what...

Movie page

Symposium: Ladder of Love

as uncredited
Released: 1996-05-28

A post-modern documentary about the meaning and nature of love from a gay perspective.

Movie page

Hayseed

as Mr. Taupe
Released: 1997-09-17

In this Canadian Candide update, orphan Gordie (Jamie Shannon) lives with his hippie aunts at a...

Movie page

Night Friend

as Lenny
Released: 1988-06-10

A priest goes to great lengths in an effort to get a teenage prostitute off the streets.

Movie page

Take-out

as Pete
Released: 2000-01-01

The film is the coming-of-age story of the child in the opening sequence, now a chicken delivery...

Movie page

My Summer Vacation

as Matt Flynn
Released: 1996-06-23

Joe is a twenty-something gay man who decides to film people he meets on the street with a...

Movie page

Wasaga

as David
Released: 1994-09-12

Rebecca, a video artist from Toronto who is working on a project in Wasaga Beach takes driving...

Movie page

Forever Knight

as uncredited
First aired: 1992-05-05

Forever Knight is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire...

TV Show page

Republic of Doyle

as Inspector Tarrant
First aired: 2010-01-06

Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged...

TV Show page

Twitch City

as Nathan
First aired: 1998-01-19

Twitch City is a surreal sitcom set in the Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood of Kensington Market,...

TV Show page