David Brinkley
Known For
Acting
Born
1920-07-10 in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Died
2003-06-11
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.
Most Known For
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
The Emmy Awards
as Self
This Week
as Self
Breakdown: 1975
as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
The Sixties
as Self
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
as Self (archive footage)
The Seventies
as Self
NBC Nightly News
NBC Nightly News
as Self
Powaqqatsi
as (archive footage)
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self (archive footage)
Huntley-Brinkley Report
as Himself
Agnelli
as Self (voice)
4 Little Girls
as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
NBC: The First Fifty Years
as Self
All Power to the People!
as Self (archive footage)
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
as Self - Host
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self (archive footage)
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
as Self (archive footage)