Michael Maclear
Michael Maclear, OC (1929 – December 25, 2018) was an Anglo-Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker, and former correspondent for various CBC programs and for CTV's W5. He is the great-great-grand-nephew of South African astronomer Sir Thomas Maclear. Born in London, UK in 1929, Maclear moved to Canada in 1954 and joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation the next year. As a foreign correspondent for CBC (1961–1971) and the CTV Television Network, he travelled to more than 80 countries. Maclear made several wartime visits to North Vietnam (1969-1970-1972) for CBC and later for CTV, the first Western TV correspondent granted admission to the North. In 1963, as CBC's Far East correspondent based in Japan, he married Yoko (Mariko) Koide, a news researcher whose contacts with the newsfilm agency Nihon Denpa News and its Hanoi bureau made possible a series of exclusive reports also aired by CBS, NBC and syndicated by The New York Times. Subsequently, Yoko's contacts were key to obtaining Hanoi's military archives for the 13-hour television history "Vietnam: The 10,000 Day War", which Maclear independently produced in 1980. He received numerous awards, including an ACTRA Award for Best Broadcaster, three Gemini Awards, and the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association's Personal Achievement Award. In 2004, he won the "Outstanding Achievement Award" at Hot Docs, an annual documentary film festival held in Toronto, Ontario, where he was also honoured with a 13-film retrospective. His daughter, Kyo Maclear, wrote the novel The Letter Opener, published in Canada by HarperCollins in 2007.
Michael Maclear, OC (1929 – December 25, 2018)[1] was an Anglo-Canadian journalist, documentary filmmaker,[2] and former correspondent for various CBC programs and for CTV's W5.[3] He is the great-great-grand-nephew of South African astronomer Sir Thomas Maclear.[4]
Born in London, UK in 1929, Maclear moved to Canada in 1954 and joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation the next year. As a foreign correspondent for CBC (1961–1971) and the CTV Television Network, he travelled to more than 80 countries.[1]
Maclear made several wartime visits to North Vietnam (1969-1970-1972) for CBC and later for CTV, the first Western TV correspondent granted admission to the North. In 1963, as CBC's Far East correspondent based in Japan, he married Yoko (Mariko) Koide, a news researcher whose contacts with the newsfilm agency Nihon Denpa News and its Hanoi bureau made possible a series of exclusive reports also aired by CBS, NBC and syndicated by The New York Times. Subsequently, Yoko's contacts were key to obtaining Hanoi's military archives for the 13-hour television history "Vietnam: The 10,000 Day War", which Maclear independently produced in 1980.
He received numerous awards, including an ACTRA Award for Best Broadcaster, three Gemini Awards, and the Canadian Film and Television Producers Association's Personal Achievement Award.[1] In 2004, he won the "Outstanding Achievement Award" at Hot Docs, an annual documentary film festival held in Toronto, Ontario, where he was also honoured with a 13-film retrospective.[3]
His daughter, Kyo Maclear, wrote the novel The Letter Opener, published in Canada by HarperCollins in 2007.[citation needed]
Selected filmography
[edit]- Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War (1980), producer[5]
- The Canadians (1988), writer and executive producer, for CTV[6]
- America at War (2004), director[7]
Selected publications
[edit]- The Ten Thousand Day War: Vietnam, 1945-1975 (1981, Methuen; ISBN 0-458-95170-6)
- Vietnam A Complete Chronicle of The WAR (2003. Tess Press; 9781579124076)
- Guerrilla Nation: My Wars in and Out of Vietnam (2013, Dundurn Press ISBN 978-1-45970-940-9)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c *"University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: Michael Maclear papers" (PDF). (193 KiB). Accessed 7 July 2007
- ^ Dixon, Guy (18 March 2004). "Confronting ghosts of Vietnam: Michael Maclear's new documentary revisits his coverage of Vietnam, drawing parallels to Iraq, GUY DIXON reports". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-07.
- ^ a b Lacey, Liam (31 March 2004). "War at forefront of film festival". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on 6 September 2004. Retrieved 2007-07-07.
- ^ Ostroff, Joshua (2005-12-15). "Television: Welcome to the holidays, bitch". Eye Weekly. Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2007-07-24.
- ^ "Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War". MediaRights. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-07-24.
- ^ "videocassette citation (Lirico.ca)". Archived from the original on 2007-10-08. Retrieved 2007-07-07.
- ^ "Last chance for Hot Docs". Eye Weekly. Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. 2004-04-29. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-07-24.
External links
[edit]- Obituary by Peter Mansbridge, Chief Correspondent of CBC News; https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/michael-maclear-cbc-reporter-1.4959954
- Michael Maclear at IMDb
- "University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: Michael Maclear papers" (PDF). (193 KiB)
- Official website unavailable 27 May 2019.
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