Acting, 1920
David Brinkley
Born Jul 10, 1920, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA, Died Jun 11, 2003 (82)
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
20 titles- 2025
Breakdown: 1975Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)IMDb 6.9Movie - 2020
Whose Vote Counts, ExplainedSelf (archive footage)IMDb 6.7Show - 2018Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the MediaSelf (archive footage)Movie
- 2017
AgnelliSelf (voice)IMDb 7.3Movie - 2015
The SeventiesSelfIMDb 7.4Show - 2014
The SixtiesSelf (archive footage)IMDb 7.4Show - 2014
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own WordsSelf (archive footage)IMDb 7.2Movie - 2013
Richard Pryor: Omit the LogicSelf (archive footage)IMDb 7.1Movie - 1997
4 Little GirlsSelf - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)IMDb 7.1Movie - 1997
The Trial of Adolf EichmannSelf - HostIMDb 5.6Movie - 1996
All Power to the People!Self (archive footage)IMDb 6.3Movie - 1988
Powaqqatsi(archive footage)IMDb 7.2Movie - 1981
This WeekSelfIMDb 9.0Show - 1976
NBC: The First Fifty YearsSelfMovie - 1970
NBC Nightly NewsSelfIMDb 6.8Show - 1969Gunsmith of WilliamsburgNarratorIMDb 5.2Movie
- 1968
The Movie OrgySelf (archive footage)IMDb 6.8Movie - 1957
Tonight Starring Jack PaarSelfIMDb 7.5Show - 1956Huntley-Brinkley ReportHimselfIMDb 9.5Show
- 1949
The Emmy AwardsSelfIMDb 7.9Show