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Daniel MacIvor

Daniel MacIvor

Acting

Biography

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.

Known For

Republic of Doyle
7.0

Jake Doyle and his ex-cop father, Malachy, run a Newfoundland detective agency. Their rugged seaside town never lacks for intriguing cases, and the Doyles don't always land on the right side of the law.

Republic of Doyle

2010
Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent
7.0

An elite squad of detectives investigate high-profile crime and corruption in metro Toronto.

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent

2024
Forever Knight
6.9

Forever Knight is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night shift while struggling to find a way to become human again. The series premiered on May 5, 1992 and concluded with the third season finale on May 17, 1996.

Forever Knight

1992
Twitch City
8.5

Twitch City is a surreal sitcom set in the Toronto, Ontario neighbourhood of Kensington Market, and follows Curtis, a television addict who refuses to leave his apartment, and his friends and roommates Nathan and Hope. In the series' first episode, Nathan is sent to prison for killing a homeless man with a can of cat food, leaving Curtis and Hope to find a replacement roommate to help with the rent.

Twitch City

1998
Hunting Season
5.0

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

Hunting Season

2013
Beefcake
5.3

A look at the 1950s muscle men's magazines and the representative industry which were popular supposedly as health and fitness magazines, but were in reality primarily being purchased by the still-underground homosexual community. Chief among the purveyors of this literature was Bob Mizer, who maintained a magazine and developed sexually inexplicit men's films for over 40 years. Aided by his mother, the two maintained a stable of not so innocent studs.

Beefcake

1998
Weirdos
6.7

It's July 1976, and two Nova Scotian teens, Kit and Alice, are hitting the road with their sights on Sydney and their minds on the future. With them is Kit's new imaginary friend, who looks conspicuously like Andy Warhol, but who assures Kit that he is a spirit animal. Kit and Alice have big dreams, but do they really want the same things?

Weirdos

2016
The Five Senses
5.7

Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's pre-school daughter in the park. The older daughter meets a voyeur (vision), a professional house-cleaner has an acute sense of smell, a cake maker has lost her sense of taste, and an older man is losing his hearing.

The Five Senses

1999
Marion Bridge
6.0

When three estranged sisters reunite to care for their dying mother, old conflicts and secrets return to the surface.

Marion Bridge

2003
Wilby Wonderful
5.6

A day-in-the-life dark comedy concerning a group of islanders, their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.

Wilby Wonderful

2004
Growing Op
6.4

The story of a teenage boy coming of age in a suburban grow-operation, where every day is paradise or fresh hell. But it's always a trip. Sheltered all his life and home-schooled by loving parents who are also committed criminals, Quinn Dawson yearns to experience the normalcy of the suburban world which surrounds him.

Growing Op

2008
Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer
4.6

A look into the life of troubled former hockey player Brian Spencer, who got into problems both on the ice and off. The film also has a close focus on Spencer's father, and shows how he influenced Brian's violent life both before and after his death.

Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer

1993
Eisenstein
6.2

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

Eisenstein

2000
Whole New Thing
5.7

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

Whole New Thing

2005
Trigger
4.8

Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.

Trigger

2010
Hayseed
3.7

In this Canadian Candide update, orphan Gordie (Jamie Shannon) lives with his hippie aunts at a quiet Porridge Glenn farm. When his beagle Speedoh is lost, a call from a psychic suggests a search in Toronto, where hayseed meets hooker wannabe Heidi (Sarain Boylan). She introduces him to two past-porn performers (Shelly Mars, Scott Thompson), the former stars of "Who's Afraid of Vagina Woolf?" Hick Gordie seems destined for street hustling and boogie nights after encountering a gay band that raises AIDS-research money by selling Gordie off to a sleazeball pimp (Alex Karzis). At this juncture, however, Heidi hatches a plan to reunite Gordie and Speedoh.

Hayseed

1997
Boys Briefs 2
6.0

The long-awaited sequel to Boys Briefs, the successful compilation of six outstanding short films about gay first love. Hosted by DANNY ROBERTS, star of MTV's THE REAL WORLD NEW ORLEANS. Films included are: Doors Cut Down [En malas compañías] (2000); Chicken (2001); Back Room (1999); Breakfast [Frühstück] (2002); Touch (2001); and Take-Out (2000)

Boys Briefs 2

2002
I Love a Man in Uniform
6.4

Henry Adler, an outwardly normal banker, yearns to make it in show business and still answers to his overbearing father. When Henry is hired to act in a television police drama, he realizes his big break has arrived and decides to do whatever it takes to get into the role — even if that means donning his police costume in public during off hours. It isn't long, however, before Henry begins to take the law into his own hands as his violent side chillingly emerges.

I Love a Man in Uniform

1993
No image
4.3

A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.

Eclipse

1995
Justice Denied
9.0

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

Justice Denied

1989