Personal Info
Birth date
1962-07-23 (62 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
Also known as
-Daniel MacIvor
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.
Filmography
Republic of Doyle
6.9
Overview:
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.Forever Knight
6.7
Overview:
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.Twitch City
8.4
Overview:
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.Hunting Season
5.7
Overview:
Samantha visits an old family house and comes face-to-face with a buried and potentially fatal past.The Five Senses
5.722
Overview:
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.Beefcake
5.3
Overview:
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.Wilby Wonderful
5.7
Overview:
A day-in-the-life dark comedy concerning a group of islanders, their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.Weirdos
7
Overview:
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?Bubbles Galore
2.571
Overview:
A bisexual female pornographer searches for sexual and economic independence in a male-dominated industry. But most of all, the girl just wants to have fun.Growing Op
6.5
Overview:
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.I Love a Man in Uniform
6.545
Overview:
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.Touch
6
Overview:
A boy, abducted and abused for eight years returns home to find that the experience remains an indelible part of him.Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer
4.333
Overview:
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.Whole New Thing
5.8
Overview:
Socially isolated by his parents, an androgynous teen enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher.Trigger
4.816
Overview:
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.Eclipse
4.3
Overview:
A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.RSVP
4
Overview:
As Sid returns home from his lover Andrew's funeral, he flips on the radio to find the DJ announcing Andrew's call in request for the song from weeks before his death.Marion Bridge
6.2
Overview:
When three estranged sisters reunite to care for their dying mother, old conflicts and secrets return to the surface.The Last Supper
1
Overview:
Chris is a dancer dying of AIDS. He has chosen euthanasia to end his suffering. With the assistance of his lover Val and his doctor, he surrounds himself in his last hours with everything that made his life special and creates his ultimate work of art by choreographing his own death.Night Friend
2
Overview:
A priest goes to great lengths in an effort to get a teenage prostitute off the streets.Dear John
2
Overview:
A girl who is stalked by a psychotic manic hides out with transvestites who aren't at all what they seem.Take-out
4.7
Overview:
The film is the coming-of-age story of the child in the opening sequence, now a chicken delivery boy (although he hates chicken). Alienated from his father, and with an uneasy relationship with his (not gay-friendly) best friend, he meets a new customer. A lawyer going through a divorce, the customer is also alienated and lonely.Hayseed
1
Overview:
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.Hadrian
NYR
Overview:
Rufus Wainwright's original opera finds Emperor Hadrian devastated after his lover Antinous drowns in the Nile River. While matters of state encroach on his grief, and advisors clamour for war against a radical new threat to the Empire, Hadrian slips out of time to re-encounter the vision and reality of Antinous—and learn the truth about what happened on the Nile.Margaret Atwood and the Problem with Canada
NYR
Overview:
This short tapes sums up the problems with our country -- celebrities just don't know how to act like celebrities.Boys Briefs 2
6.1
Overview:
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)Acting
2013Hunting Season as Dr. Martin
2010Trigger as Host
2010Republic of Doyle (3 Episodes) as Inspector Tarrant
2008Growing Op as Charles
2005Whole New Thing as Don Grant
2004Wilby Wonderful as Stan Lastman
2002Boys Briefs 2 as Doctor (segment "Touch")
2002Past Perfect as Cecil
2002Touch as Doctor
2000Eisenstein as Stalker
2000Take-out as Pete
1999The Five Senses as Robert
1998Beefcake as Bob Mizer
1998Twitch City (13 Episodes) as Nathan
1997Hayseed as Mr. Taupe
1997Uncut as Newscaster
1996The Last Supper as Dr. Parthens
1996Bubbles Galore as Godfrey Montana
1996My Summer Vacation as Matt Flynn
1996Symposium: Ladder of Love as Unknown
1995Eclipse as Jim
1995House as Victor
1994My Addiction as Unknown
1994Wasaga as David
1994Wake Up, Jerk Off as Unknown
1993I Love a Man in Uniform as Director
1993Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer as Bus Driver
1992The Fairy Who Didn't Want To Be A Fairy Anymore as The Fairy
1992Forever Knight (1 Episode) as Unknown
1992RSVP as Sid
1989Justice Denied as Jimmy MacNeil
1988Night Friend as Lenny
1988Dear John as George
Directing
TBAThe Work ... Director
2004Wilby Wonderful ... Director
2002Past Perfect ... Director
1998Until I Hear From You ... Director
1997Permission ... Director
1994Wake Up, Jerk Off ... Director
1993Margaret Atwood and the Problem with Canada ... Director
Writing
2020Hadrian ... Book, Writer
2016Weirdos ... Writer
2010Trigger ... Writer
2005Whole New Thing ... Writer
2004Wilby Wonderful ... Writer
2003Marion Bridge ... Writer, Theatre Play
2002Past Perfect ... Writer
1998Until I Hear From You ... Writer
1997Permission ... Writer
1995House ... Theatre Play, Screenplay
1994Wake Up, Jerk Off ... Writer
1993Margaret Atwood and the Problem with Canada ... Writer
1992The Fairy Who Didn't Want To Be A Fairy Anymore ... Screenplay
Production
2005Whole New Thing ... Associate Producer