David Brinkley
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 10, 1920
- Died
- June 11, 2003 (aged 82)
- Birthplace
- Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
Breakdown: 1975
Movie · as (archive footage)
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Agnelli
Movie · as Self (voice)
The Seventies
TV · as Self · 8 eps
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Sixties
TV · as Self (archive footage) · 10 eps
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
4 Little Girls
Movie · as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Movie · as Self - Host
All Power to the People!
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Powaqqatsi
Movie · as (archive footage)
This Week
TV · as Self · 127 eps
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Movie · as Self
NBC Nightly News
TV · as Self
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
Movie · as Narrator
The Movie Orgy
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV · as Self · 1 ep
Huntley-Brinkley Report
TV · as Himself · 1 ep
The Emmy Awards
TV · as Self · 1 ep