Tom Brokaw

Tom Brokaw

Known for
Acting
Born
February 6, 1940 (age 86)
Birthplace
Webster, South Dakota, USA

Biography

Thomas John Brokaw is an American television journalist and author. He was the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for twenty two years (1982–2004). Brokaw is the only person to have hosted all three major NBC News programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and, briefly, Meet the Press. He now serves as a special correspondent for NBC News and works on documentaries for other outlets

Known For

Filmography

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Off Your Duff poster

Off Your Duff

Movie · as Self

2025
The Gettysburg Address poster

The Gettysburg Address

Movie · as Self

2024
Biden's Decision poster

Biden's Decision

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2024
Trump's Big FUSS: Fight for US Sovereignty poster

Trump's Big FUSS: Fight for US Sovereignty

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2024
The White House Effect poster

The White House Effect

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2023
Bill Russell: Legend poster

Bill Russell: Legend

TV · as Self - Author, Journalist & Longtime Admirer of Bill · 1 ep

2023
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields poster

Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

2022
They Volunteered for This: Merrill's Marauders poster

They Volunteered for This: Merrill's Marauders

Movie · as Narrator

2022
Untold: Caitlyn Jenner poster

Untold: Caitlyn Jenner

Movie · as Self - NBC News Anchor (archive footage)

2022
Endangered poster

Endangered

Movie

2022
Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure poster

Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

2021
Black Art: In the Absence of Light poster

Black Art: In the Absence of Light

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2021
Fiasco poster

Fiasco

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

2020
Katarina Witt - Weltstar aus der DDR poster

Katarina Witt - Weltstar aus der DDR

Movie · as Self

2020
Challenger: The Final Flight poster

Challenger: The Final Flight

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps

2019
Mike Wallace Is Here poster

Mike Wallace Is Here

Movie · as (archive footage)

2019
We Are Columbine poster

We Are Columbine

Movie · as Self

2019
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth poster

Alan Pakula: Going for Truth

Movie · as Self

2019
Cola Wars poster

Cola Wars

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2018
RBG poster

RBG

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2018
America's Library poster

America's Library

Movie · as Self

2018
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists poster

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists

Movie · as Self

2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

Movie · as Self

2018
1968 poster

1968

Movie · as Self

2018
The Front Runner poster

The Front Runner

Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2018
The Mayo Clinic poster

The Mayo Clinic

Movie · as Self

2018
Explained poster

Explained

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

2018
The 2000s poster

The 2000s

TV · 1 ep

2017
Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired poster

Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired

Movie · as Self

2017
Reflections on the Vietnam War poster

Reflections on the Vietnam War

Movie · as Host

2017
The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee poster

The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee

Movie · as Self

2017
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold poster

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

Movie · as Self

2017
Hamilton: Building America poster

Hamilton: Building America

Movie

2017
LA 92 poster

LA 92

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2017
The Nineties poster

The Nineties

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 2 eps

2017
Road to 9/11 poster

Road to 9/11

TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep

2016
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words poster

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2016
Crashing the Party poster

Crashing the Party

Movie · as Self

2016
Jackie Robinson poster

Jackie Robinson

TV · as Self · 2 eps

2015
The Making of Trump poster

The Making of Trump

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2015
41 on 41 poster

41 on 41

Movie · as Self

2014
Iverson poster

Iverson

Movie

2014
All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State poster

All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State

Movie · as Self

2014
D-Day: Normandy 1944 poster

D-Day: Normandy 1944

Movie · as Narrator (voice)

2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon poster

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2013
All the President's Men Revisited poster

All the President's Men Revisited

Movie · as Self (uncredited)

2013
Home for the Holidays: Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square poster

Home for the Holidays: Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square

Movie · as Self

2013
The Passions & Politics of Ed Edelman: An Untold Story of Leadership

The Passions & Politics of Ed Edelman: An Untold Story of Leadership

Movie · as Narrator

2012
United in Anger: A History of ACT UP poster

United in Anger: A History of ACT UP

Movie · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2011
Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird poster

Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird

Movie · as Self

2011
iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World poster

iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World

Movie · as Self

2011
9/11: In Our Own Words

9/11: In Our Own Words

Movie · as Himself

2011
Vito poster

Vito

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2010
America: The Story of Us poster

America: The Story of Us

Movie · as Himself

2010
Operation Yellow Ribbon poster

Operation Yellow Ribbon

Movie · as Self

2010
America: The Story of Us poster

America: The Story of Us

TV · as Self · 9 eps

2010
Buccaneers & Bones poster

Buccaneers & Bones

TV · as Narrator · 49 eps

2009
Our Time poster

Our Time

Movie

2009
Schabowskis Zettel - Die Nacht, als die Mauer fiel poster

Schabowskis Zettel - Die Nacht, als die Mauer fiel

Movie · as Tom Brokaw

2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon poster

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2009
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien poster

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

2008
Run for Your Life poster

Run for Your Life

Movie · as Himself

2008
King poster

King

Movie · as Host

2007
1968 with Tom Brokaw poster

1968 with Tom Brokaw

Movie · as Himself

2007
Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed poster

Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed

Movie · as Self

2007
Everything's Cool poster

Everything's Cool

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2006
This Film Is Not Yet Rated poster

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Movie · as Self - 1978 TV Newscaster (archive footage) (uncredited)

2006
Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire poster

Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire

Movie · as Narrator

2006
Deep Throat: The Full Story of Watergate poster

Deep Throat: The Full Story of Watergate

Movie · as Self

2006
NBC News Presents: Survivor: The Aron Ralston Story

NBC News Presents: Survivor: The Aron Ralston Story

Movie · as Himself

2005
Last Best Chance poster

Last Best Chance

Movie · as Self

2005
The Colbert Report poster

The Colbert Report

TV · as Self (uncredited) · 1 ep

2005
The Greatest Generation poster

The Greatest Generation

TV · 4 eps

2004
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism poster

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2004
Celsius 41.11 poster

Celsius 41.11

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2004
Tanner on Tanner poster

Tanner on Tanner

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2003
Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty poster

Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty

Movie · as Narrator (voice)

2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show poster

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

TV · as Self · 1 ep

2002
The Bush White House: Inside the Real West Wing poster

The Bush White House: Inside the Real West Wing

Movie · as Self

2002
NBC 75th Anniversary Special poster

NBC 75th Anniversary Special

Movie · as Self

2002
Vertical Frontier poster

Vertical Frontier

Movie · as Narrator

2002
Journeys with George poster

Journeys with George

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2001
Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack poster

Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack

Movie · as himself

2001
On Common Ground

On Common Ground

Movie · as Self - Commentator

1999
When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World poster

When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World

Movie · as Self

1997
Frank Capra's American Dream poster

Frank Capra's American Dream

Movie · as Self (voice)

1997
The View poster

The View

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1996
Nichols and May: Take Two poster

Nichols and May: Take Two

Movie · as Self

1996
The Daily Show poster

The Daily Show

TV · as Self · 8 eps

1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show poster

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1995
Spin poster

Spin

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

1993
Barbarians at the Gate poster

Barbarians at the Gate

Movie · as Self

1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien poster

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

TV · as Self - Guest · 10 eps

1993
Late Show with David Letterman poster

Late Show with David Letterman

TV · as Self, Self - Guest · 1 ep

1992
Commercial Entertainment Product poster

Commercial Entertainment Product

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno poster

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

TV · 1 ep

1989
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt poster

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

Movie · as Self - News Reporter (archive footage)

1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark poster

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1986
Rag Dolly in the U.S.S.R. poster

Rag Dolly in the U.S.S.R.

Movie · as Narrator

1986
Mount Rushmore: The Shrine

Mount Rushmore: The Shrine

Movie · as Narrator (voice)

1986
American Masters poster

American Masters

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1982
Late Night with David Letterman poster

Late Night with David Letterman

TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

1981
Entertainment Tonight poster

Entertainment Tonight

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1970
NBC Nightly News poster

NBC Nightly News

TV · as Self · 153 eps

1968
60 Minutes poster

60 Minutes

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson poster

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1952
Today poster

Today

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1947
Meet the Press poster

Meet the Press

TV · as Self · 1 ep