David Brinkley
Born
July 10, 1920
Died
June 11, 2003 (82 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
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.
Known For
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2020
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self (archive footage)
2018
Agnelli
Self (voice)
2017
The Seventies
Self · (8 episodes)
2015
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2014
The Sixties
Self · (10 episodes)
2014
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self (archive footage)
2013
4 Little Girls
Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Self - Host
1997
All Power to the People!
Self (archive footage)
1996
Powaqqatsi
(archive footage)
1988
NBC Nightly News
(0 episode)
1970
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
Narrator
1969
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
1968
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self · (1 episode)
1957
Huntley-Brinkley Report
Himself · (1 episode)
1956
The Emmy Awards
Self · (1 episode)
1949