David Brinkley
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday10 July 1920
Died11 June 2003 (age 82)
Place of birthWilmington, North Carolina, USA
Known credits20
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 Awar…
Breakdown: 1975
2025 · Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Agnelli
2017 · Self (voice)
The Seventies
2015 · Self
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2014 · Self (archive footage)
The Sixties
2014 · Self (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Self (archive footage)
4 Little Girls
1997 · Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997 · Self - Host
All Power to the People!
1996 · Self (archive footage)
Powaqqatsi
1988 · (archive footage)
This Week
1981 · Self
NBC: The First Fifty Years
1976 · Self
NBC Nightly News
1970
NBC Nightly News
1970 · Self
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
1969 · Narrator
The Movie Orgy
1968 · Self (archive footage)
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · Self
Huntley-Brinkley Report
1956 · Himself
The Emmy Awards
1949 · Self
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