David Brinkley
Acting
1920-07-10 · Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
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
Breakdown: 1975
2025 · Movie
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
2020 · Series
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018 · Movie
Agnelli
2017 · Movie
The Seventies
2015 · Series
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2014 · Movie
The Sixties
2014 · Series
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Movie
4 Little Girls
1997 · Movie
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997 · Movie
All Power to the People!
1996 · Movie
Powaqqatsi
1988 · Movie
This Week
1981 · Series
NBC: The First Fifty Years
1976 · Movie
NBC Nightly News
1970 · Series
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
1969 · Movie
The Movie Orgy
1968 · Movie
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · Series
Huntley-Brinkley Report
1956 · Series
The Emmy Awards
1949 · Series