David Brinkley
Acting • Born 1920-07-10 – Died 2003-06-11
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.
Filmography
21 credits
The Movie Orgy
Movie • 1968
Self (archive footage)
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
Movie • 1969
Narrator
4 Little Girls
Movie • 1997
Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Movie • 2013
Self (archive footage)
Agnelli
Movie • 2017
Self (voice)
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Movie • 2018
Self (archive footage)
All Power to the People!
Movie • 1996
Self (archive footage)
Powaqqatsi
Movie • 1988
(archive footage)
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Movie • 1997
Self - Host
Breakdown: 1975
Movie • 2025
Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Movie • 1976
Self
NBC Nightly News
TV • 1970
The Emmy Awards
TV • 1949
Self
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TV • 1957
Self
Huntley-Brinkley Report
TV • 1956
Himself
The Sixties
TV • 2014
Self
The Seventies
TV • 2015
Self
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
TV • 2020
Self (archive footage)
This Week
TV • 1981
Self
NBC Nightly News
TV • 1970
Self