David Brinkley
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.
Known For
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
17
Gender
Male
Birthday
1920-07-10 (105 years old)
Place of Birth
Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Acting
2020
Whose Vote Counts, Explained as Self (archive footage)2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media as Self (archive footage)2017
Agnelli as Self (voice)2015
The Seventies as Self2014
The Sixties as Self2014
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words as Self (archive footage)2013
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic as Self (archive footage)1997
4 Little Girls as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)1997
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann as Self - Host1996
All Power to the People! as Self (archive footage)1988
Powaqqatsi as (archive footage)1970
NBC Nightly News as Not available1969
Gunsmith of Williamsburg as Narrator1968
The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)1957
Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self1956
Huntley-Brinkley Report as Himself1949
The Emmy Awards as Self