Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - MacFadyen akaberekwa Gavin Hall Galter pana January 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. Akafukidza kuratidzira kwairwisana neHondo yeVietnam, mhirizhonga yemadzinza uye kurwisana kwemapurisa nevaratidziri paDemocratic National Convention muChicago muna 1968
, apo makumi ezviuru avaratidziri veHondo yeVietnam vakarwa namapurisa mumigwagwa, nepo bato reDemocratic Party rakaparadzana pamusoro pokusawirirana kwemukati pamusoro pemaonero aro pamusoro peVietnam. Akapfuurira kunyorera kubva kuNicaraguan Revolution, hondo pakati peContra yekurudyi neMarxist Sandinista National Liberation Front muma1980, uye Iran-Contra, chisimba chevaNazi, Watergate, nhoroondo yeCIA.