David Brinkley
Acting Born Jul 10, 1920 Wilmington, North Carolina, USA 22 credits
Biography
David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.
From 1956 through 1970, he co-anchored NBC's top rated nightly news program, The Huntley–Brinkley Report, with Chet Huntley and thereafter appeared as co-anchor or commentator on its successor, NBC Nightly News, through the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Brinkley was host of the popular Sunday This Week with David Brinkley program and a top commentator on election night coverage for ABC News. Over the course of his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Full filmography
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) as Self (archive footage)
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar (1957) as Self
- This Week (1981) as Self
- The Emmy Awards (1949) as Self
- The Sixties (2014) as Self (archive footage)
- The Seventies (2015) as Self
- Breakdown: 1975 (2025) as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
- NBC Nightly News (1970)
- NBC Nightly News (1970) as Self
- Whose Vote Counts, Explained (2020) as Self (archive footage)
- The Movie Orgy (1968) as Self (archive footage)
- Powaqqatsi (1988) as (archive footage)
- 4 Little Girls (1997) as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
- NBC: The First Fifty Years (1976) as Self
- Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013) as Self (archive footage)
- Huntley-Brinkley Report (1956) as Himself
- The Trial of Adolf Eichmann (1997) as Self - Host
- Agnelli (2017) as Self (voice)
- Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words (2014) as Self (archive footage)
- All Power to the People! (1996) as Self (archive footage)
- Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media (2018) as Self (archive footage)
- Gunsmith of Williamsburg (1969) as Narrator