Peter Jennings
Known For
Acting
Born
1938-07-29 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died
2005-08-07
Biography
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings CM was a Canadian-born American television journalist who served as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005. Jennings was one of the "Big Three" news anchormen, along with Tom Brokaw of NBC and Dan Rather of CBS, who dominated American evening network news from the early 1980s until his death in 2005, which closely followed the retirements from anchoring evening news programs of Brokaw in 2004 and Rather in 2005.
Most Known For
The Daily Show
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self
Great Performances
as Host
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tony Danza Show
as Self
Explained
as Self (archive footage)
The Nineties
as Self (archive footage)
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
as Self
The Devil Next Door
as Self(archive footage)
World News Tonight with David Muir
as Self - Anchor
Cola Wars
as Self (archive footage)
RBG
as Self (archive footage)
The White House Effect
as Self (archive footage)
The Century
as Self - Narrator
Two Men at War
as Self (archive footage)
The Last Party
as Self
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
as Self (uncredited)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
as Self (archive footage)
In Winter
as Self
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
as Self (archive footage)