David Brinkley
Acting
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.
Born: July 10, 1920 · Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Filmography (15)
Breakdown: 1975
2025
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
2020
Agnelli
2017
The Seventies
2015
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2014
The Sixties
2014
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
4 Little Girls
1997
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
Powaqqatsi
1988
This Week
1981
NBC Nightly News
1970
The Movie Orgy
1968
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
The Emmy Awards
1949