Daniel MacIvor

Daniel MacIvor

Born: July 23, 1962
in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
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.

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Hunting Season
Title: Hunting Season
Character: Dr. Martin
Released: September 28, 2013
Type: Movie
Samantha visits an old family house and comes face-to-face with a buried and potentially fatal past.
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Trigger
Title: Trigger
Character: Host
Released: September 12, 2010
Type: Movie
Ten years after ending their partnership as rock musicians, two women become re-acquainted in the course of one night.
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Title: Republic of Doyle
Character: Inspector Tarrant
Released: January 6, 2010
Type: TV
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.
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Growing Op
Title: Growing Op
Character: Charles
Released: November 21, 2008
Type: Movie
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.
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Whole New Thing
Title: Whole New Thing
Character: Don Grant
Released: September 15, 2005
Type: Movie
Socially isolated by his parents, an androgynous teen enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher.
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Wilby Wonderful
Title: Wilby Wonderful
Character: Stan Lastman
Released: September 13, 2004
Type: Movie
A day-in-the-life dark comedy concerning a group of islanders, their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.
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Boys Briefs 2
Title: Boys Briefs 2
Character: Doctor (segment "Touch")
Released: December 20, 2002
Type: Movie
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)
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Past Perfect
Title: Past Perfect
Character: Cecil
Released: September 7, 2002
Type: Movie
Strangers meet on a cross-Canada flight.
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Touch
Title: Touch
Character: Doctor
Released: January 10, 2002
Type: Movie
A boy, abducted and abused for eight years returns home to find that the experience remains an indelible part of him.
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Eisenstein
Title: Eisenstein
Character: Stalker
Released: September 8, 2000
Type: Movie
A glimpse at the life of legendary Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein.
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Take-out
Title: Take-out
Character: Pete
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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The Five Senses
Title: The Five Senses
Character: Robert
Released: May 18, 1999
Type: Movie
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.
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Beefcake
Title: Beefcake
Character: Bob Mizer
Released: September 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Twitch City
Character: Nathan
Released: January 19, 1998
Type: TV
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.
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Hayseed
Title: Hayseed
Character: Mr. Taupe
Released: September 17, 1997
Type: Movie
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.
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Uncut
Title: Uncut
Character: Newscaster
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: Movie
Freely drawing from a variety of film genres, including musicals, the sudsy melodramas and documentaries and combing them with a free-flowing narrative and bright pop-art sensibilities, this hard-hitting experimental romp from Canadian filmmaker John Greyson packs a political wallop while satirically comparing and contrasting the issues of censorship and circumcision. The tale centers on the exploits of three homosexuals named Peter. Peter Koosens is obsessed with the semi-scandalous behavior of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau while college student Peter Cort, ponders the significance and necessity of male circumcision. Peter Denham is an artist who seduces the other two and freely borrows from their work to make something of his own. Their exploits land the trio in prison after an operatic number (the police sing songs adapted from Bizet's Carmen).
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The Last Supper
Title: The Last Supper
Character: Dr. Parthens
Released: November 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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Bubbles Galore
Title: Bubbles Galore
Character: Godfrey Montana
Released: August 25, 1996
Type: Movie
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.
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My Summer Vacation
Title: My Summer Vacation
Character: Matt Flynn
Released: June 23, 1996
Type: Movie
Joe is a twenty-something gay man who decides to film people he meets on the street with a camera given to him by his boyfriend.
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Symposium: Ladder of Love
Title: Symposium: Ladder of Love
Released: May 28, 1996
Type: Movie
A post-modern documentary about the meaning and nature of love from a gay perspective.
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Eclipse
Title: Eclipse
Character: Jim
Released: October 13, 1995
Type: Movie
A round of unerotic sexual couplings in Toronto, interspersed with interviews about an impending total eclipse.
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House
Title: House
Character: Victor
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Fresh from group therapy, a man shares odd anecdotes with ten others inside a church.
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My Addiction
Title: My Addiction
Released: September 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Matt, although married, is completely in love with a hustler called Dick. One night Matt leaves his wife and goes to Dick’s apartment where he waits for his loved one. But Dick’s roommate tells Matt that if Dick catches him there he will kill him.
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Wasaga
Title: Wasaga
Character: David
Released: September 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Rebecca, a video artist from Toronto who is working on a project in Wasaga Beach takes driving lessons from driving instructor Judy because of the town's much more car-oriented lifestyle, only to find Judy becoming a love interest.
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Wake Up, Jerk Off
Title: Wake Up, Jerk Off
Released: July 23, 1994
Type: Movie
A brief glimpse into the life a single urban gay male.
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I Love a Man in Uniform
Title: I Love a Man in Uniform
Character: Director
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer
Title: Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer
Character: Bus Driver
Released: February 28, 1993
Type: Movie
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.
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The Fairy Who Didn't Want To Be A Fairy Anymore
Title: The Fairy Who Didn't Want To Be A Fairy Anymore
Character: The Fairy
Released: September 11, 1992
Type: Movie
Mump & Smoot find a book and start to read it. The book's comic & tragic story is about a fairy who is tired of the abuse he suffers for being a fairy.
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Title: Forever Knight
Released: May 5, 1992
Type: TV
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.
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RSVP
Title: RSVP
Character: Sid
Released: April 3, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Justice Denied
Title: Justice Denied
Character: Jimmy MacNeil
Released: September 24, 1989
Type: Movie
Donald Marshall is imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit.
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Night Friend
Title: Night Friend
Character: Lenny
Released: June 10, 1988
Type: Movie
A priest goes to great lengths in an effort to get a teenage prostitute off the streets.
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Dear John
Title: Dear John
Character: George
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A girl who is stalked by a psychotic manic hides out with transvestites who aren't at all what they seem.