Personal Info
Gender:Unspecified
Birth Date:1920-07-10 00:00:00
Birth Place:Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Known For:Acting
Death Date:2003-06-11 00:00:00
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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.
Filmography (19)
The Movie Orgy
Role: Self (archive footage)1968
4 Little Girls
Role: Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)1997
Breakdown: 1975
Role: Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)2025
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Role: Self - Host1997
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Role: Self (archive footage)2013
Agnelli
Role: Self (voice)2017
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Role: Self1976
No Image
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Role: Self (archive footage)2018
All Power to the People!
Role: Self (archive footage)1996
No Image
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
Role: Narrator1969
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Role: Self (archive footage)2014
Powaqqatsi
Role: (archive footage)1988
This Week
Role: Self1981
The Birder
Role: Self2013
Plan C
Role: Self2026
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Role: Self2008
And Now a Word from Our Sponsor
Role: Self2013
Blonde in Black Leather
Role: Self1975
Ciao, Professore!
Role: Self1992