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(22)
movieBreakdown: 1975
as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage) · 2025 · 6.8
tvWhose Vote Counts, Explained
as Self (archive footage) · 2020 · 6.6
movieHope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self (archive footage) · 2018 · 0.0
movieAgnelli
as Self (voice) · 2017 · 7.5
tvThe Seventies
as Self · 2015 · 7.4
movieNixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
as Self (archive footage) · 2014 · 7.2
tvThe Sixties
as Self (archive footage) · 2014 · 7.5
movieRichard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self (archive footage) · 2013 · 7.0
movie4 Little Girls
as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1997 · 7.2
movieThe Trial of Adolf Eichmann
as Self - Host · 1997 · 6.1
movieAll Power to the People!
as Self (archive footage) · 1996 · 6.3
moviePowaqqatsi
as (archive footage) · 1988 · 7.3
tvThis Week
as Self · 1981 · 9.0
movieNBC: The First Fifty Years
as Self · 1976 · 0.0
tvNBC Nightly News
as · 1970 · 6.4
tvNBC Nightly News
as Self · 1970 · 6.4
movieGunsmith of Williamsburg
as Narrator · 1969 · 5.2
movieThe Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage) · 1968 · 6.6
tvThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self (archive footage) · 1962 · 7.5
tvTonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self · 1957 · 7.5
tvHuntley-Brinkley Report
as Himself · 1956 · 9.5
tvThe Emmy Awards
as Self · 1949 · 7.9