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Daniel MacIvor

Daniel MacIvor

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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Movies Starring Daniel MacIvor (29)

Hunting Season (2013)

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

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Trigger (2010)

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

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Growing Op (2008)

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 ex ...

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Whole New Thing (2005)

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 (2004)

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 (2002)

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. ...

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Touch (2002)

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 (2000)

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

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Take-out (2000)

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 ...

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The Five Senses (1999)

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 ( ...

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Beefcake (1998)

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 ...

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Hayseed (1997)

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 ...

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Uncut (1997)

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

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The Last Supper (1996)

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 c ...

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Bubbles Galore (1996)

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 (1996)

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 (1996)

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

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Eclipse (1995)

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

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House (1995)

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

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Wasaga (1994)

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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My Addiction (1994)

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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Wake Up, Jerk Off (1994)

A brief glimpse into the life a single urban gay male. ...

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I Love a Man in Uniform (1993)

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 g ...

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Gross Misconduct: The Life of Brian Spencer (1993)

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 (1992)

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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RSVP (1992)

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 (1989)

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

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Night Friend (1988)

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

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Dear John (1988)

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

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Movies Made By Daniel MacIvor (12)

Hadrian (2020)

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 o ...

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Weirdos (2016)

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 s ...

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Trigger (2010)

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

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Whole New Thing (2005)

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 (2004)

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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Marion Bridge (2003)

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

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Until I Hear From You (1998)

A man's video-taped apology to his ex-boyfriend turns into an epic confession about his attitude towards relationships. ...

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Permission (1997)

A boy's desire to play with a Barbie doll prompts a father to question both his son's masculinity and his own. ...

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House (1995)

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

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Wake Up, Jerk Off (1994)

A brief glimpse into the life a single urban gay male. ...

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Margaret Atwood and the Problem with Canada (1993)

This short tapes sums up the problems with our country -- celebrities just don't know how to act like celebrities. ...

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The Fairy Who Didn't Want To Be A Fairy Anymore (1992)

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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