Robert Duncan McNeill is a director on ABC's A Million Little Things.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Not much is known about McNeil's early life. He was born on November 9, 1964 in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. He grew up in Atlanta, and began his career acting in local and regional productions before becoming a student at Juilliard School in New York City.
Career[]
McNeil enjoyed early success as a professional actor, winning the role of Charlie Brent on All My Children, and starring in the feature film Masters of the Universe. He also starred in an episode of the 1980s version of The Twilight Zone, "A Message From Charity". He then appeared with Stockard Channing in the Broadway production of Six Degrees of Separation, before returning to Los Angeles to pursue roles on television.
McNeil appeared in featured guest roles on numerous TV series, including L.A. Law; Quantum Leap; and Murder, She Wrote. He was a featured cast member on the short-lived 1992 series Going to Extremes. Another guest role that same year was in "The First Duty", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. He would later become a Trek regular in 1995 on Star Trek: Voyager, on which he played Tom Paris.
McNeil's other acting credits include Zebulon in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Paper Mill Playhouse, and Judas in Godspell at the Lamb's Theatre.
McNeill began his directing career with several episodes of Voyager. He then wrote, produced, and directed two award-winning short films, The Battery and 9mm of Lov, and began to direct other episodic television shows. While he has since performed as a guest star on television shows such as The Outer Limits and Crossing Jordan, McNeill is now focusing on his directing career, helming episodes of Dawson's Creek, Everwood, Star Trek: Enterprise, Dead Like Me, The O.C., One Tree Hill, Las Vegas, Summerland, and Supernatural.
McNeil's directing credits for 2006–2007 include episodes of Desperate Housewives, Medium, Standoff, The Nine, The Knights of Prosperity, In Case of Emergency, What About Brian, and My Boys. In 2007, he directed the season 5 premiere of Las Vegas, the pilot of Samantha Who? and then signed on as a producer-director of the NBC show Chuck, helming numerous episodes, including the first episode of a television show to be broadcast entirely in 3D.
In 2010, McNeill directed an episode of V, an ABC science fiction television series produced by Scott Rosenbaum, a former writer and executive producer on Chuck. As of 2019, he has directed two episodes of the Fox series The Orville and The Gifted.
In 2019, McNeil directed an episode of the ABC series, A Million Little Things.[1]
Personal life[]
McNeill has three children, Taylor McNeill (b. June 11, 1990), Kyle McNeill (b. April 12, 1994), and Carter Jay McNeill (b. January 21, 1998). His eldest daughter Taylor played the role of Hannah in an episode of the television show Summerland.
Credits[]
Director[]
| A Million Little Things: Season 2 | |||||||||
| "Coming Home": | "Grand Canyon": | "Mixed Signals": | "The Perfect Storm": | "Austin": | "Unleashed": | "Ten Years": | "Goodnight": | "Time Stands Still": | "The Kiss": |
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| "We're the Howards": | "Guilty": | "Daisy": | "The Sleepover": | "The Lunch": | "Change of Plans": | "One Year Later": | "Mothers and Daughters": | "'Til Death Do Us Part": | |
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External links[]
References[]
- ↑ Production List, by Directors Guild of Canada British Columbia, Dgc.ca (June 15, 2018)
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