- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- July 10, 1920
- Place of Birth
- Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
- Died
- June 11, 2003
David Brinkley
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.
Filmography
movieBreakdown: 1975
2025 · Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
tvWhose Vote Counts, Explained
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
movieHope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018 · Self (archive footage)
movieAgnelli
2017 · Self (voice)
tvThe Seventies
2015 · Self
movieNixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2014 · Self (archive footage)
tvThe Sixties
2014 · Self (archive footage)
movieRichard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Self (archive footage)
movie4 Little Girls
1997 · Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
movieThe Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997 · Self - Host
movieAll Power to the People!
1996 · Self (archive footage)
moviePowaqqatsi
1988 · (archive footage)
tvThis Week
1981 · Self
movieNBC: The First Fifty Years
1976 · Self
tvNBC Nightly News
1970 · , Self
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
movieGunsmith of Williamsburg
1969 · Narrator
movieThe Movie Orgy
1968 · Self (archive footage)
tvThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self (archive footage)
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
tvTonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · Self
Huntley-Brinkley Report
tvHuntley-Brinkley Report
1956 · Himself
tvThe Emmy Awards
1949 · Self