7.3
Movie
Acting
David Brinkley
- Born
- Died
- (aged 82)
- Birthplace
- Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
- Credits
- 20 titles
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.
Signature work
Known For
Acting credits 20
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Breakdown: 1975 Film | Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage) |
| 2020 | Whose Vote Counts, Explained TV | Self (archive footage) (1 ep) |
| 2018 | Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media Film | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Agnelli Film | Self (voice) |
| 2015 | The Seventies TV | Self (8 ep) |
| 2014 | Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words Film | Self (archive footage) |
| 2014 | The Sixties TV | Self (archive footage) (10 ep) |
| 2013 | Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic Film | Self (archive footage) |
| 1997 | 4 Little Girls Film | Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1997 | The Trial of Adolf Eichmann Film | Self - Host |
| 1996 | All Power to the People! Film | Self (archive footage) |
| 1988 | Powaqqatsi Film | (archive footage) |
| 1981 | This Week TV | Self (127 ep) |
| 1976 | NBC: The First Fifty Years Film | Self |
| 1970 | NBC Nightly News TV | Self |
| 1969 | Gunsmith of Williamsburg Film | Narrator |
| 1968 | The Movie Orgy Film | Self (archive footage) |
| 1957 | Tonight Starring Jack Paar TV | Self (1 ep) |
| 1956 | Huntley-Brinkley Report TV | Himself (1 ep) |
| 1949 | The Emmy Awards TV | Self (1 ep) |