Acting
David Brinkley
Born July 10, 1920 · Wilmington, North Carolina, USA · Died June 11, 2003
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
65
7.2
Powaqqatsi
(archive footage)
667.3
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self (archive footage)
897.8
4 Little Girls
Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
7.3
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
Self (archive footage)
6.8
Breakdown: 1975
Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
7.3 TMDB
Agnelli
Self (voice)
8.2
The Seventies
Self
8.4
The Sixties
Self (archive footage)
7.8
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
6.8 TMDB
NBC Nightly News
1970 · Series
7.2 TMDB
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Self (archive footage)
7.9 TMDB
The Emmy Awards
Self
7.2
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Self - Host
7.9
All Power to the People!
Self (archive footage)
8.2
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
9.5 TMDB
Huntley-Brinkley Report
Himself
5.2 TMDB
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
Narrator
9.0 TMDB
This Week
Self
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self (archive footage)
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Self
Filmography
- 2025Breakdown: 1975Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)Movie
- 2020Whose Vote Counts, ExplainedSelf (archive footage)Series
- 2018Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the MediaSelf (archive footage)Movie
- 2017AgnelliSelf (voice)Movie
- 2015The SeventiesSelfSeries
- 2014Nixon by Nixon: In His Own WordsSelf (archive footage)Movie
- 2014The SixtiesSelf (archive footage)Series
- 2013Richard Pryor: Omit the LogicSelf (archive footage)Movie
- 19974 Little GirlsSelf - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)Movie
- 1997The Trial of Adolf EichmannSelf - HostMovie
- 1996All Power to the People!Self (archive footage)Movie
- 1988Powaqqatsi(archive footage)Movie
- 1981This WeekSelfSeries
- 1976NBC: The First Fifty YearsSelfMovie
- 1970NBC Nightly NewsSeries
- 1969Gunsmith of WilliamsburgNarratorMovie
- 1968The Movie OrgySelf (archive footage)Movie
- 1957Tonight Starring Jack PaarSelfSeries
- 1956Huntley-Brinkley ReportHimselfSeries
- 1949The Emmy AwardsSelfSeries