Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: MacFadyen akaberekwa Gavin Hall Galter musi waJanuary 1, 1940, muGreeley muColorado, uye akakurira muChicago. Amai vake vaiva muridzi wepiano. Akatora zita rokupedzisira rababa vake vokurera, mutsvakurudzi wezvokurapa. Akadzidza paShimer College kubva muna 1958 kusvika muna 1959, uye akazoshanda semurongi wesangano rezvematongerwo enyika. Akaiswa mutorongo nokuda kwokugoverana mukuratidzira kodzero dzavanhu. Akatamira kuEngland, akabatana neInternational Socialists (iyo yakazova Socialist Workers Party (UK)), uye akapedza kudzidza paLondon School of Film Technique (zvino London Film School). Akavamba boka refirimu rezvinyorwa kuti rinyore mhirizhonga yezvematongerwe enyika muUnited States mukupera kwema1960 nokuda kweBBC. Akashuma nezvokuratidzira kwairwisana neHondo yeVietnam, mhirizhonga yemadzinza uye kurwisana kwemapurisa nevaratidziri pa
Democratic National Convention muChicago muna 1968, apo makumi ezviuru avaratidziri veHondo yeVietnam vakarwa namapurisa mumigwagwa, nepo bato reDemocratic rakaparadzana pamusoro pokusawirirana kwemukati pamusoro pomugariro waro paVietnam. Akapfuurira kunyorera kubva kuNicaraguan Revolution, hondo pakati peContra yekurudyi neMarxist Sandinista National Liberation Front muma1980, uye Iran-Contra, chisimba chevaNazi, Watergate, nhoroondo yeCIA.