Acting
David Brinkley
Also Known As: David McClure Brinkley
Birth Date
July 10, 1920
Death Date
June 11, 2003
(passed away at 82)
Place of Birth
Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
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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.
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TV Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self (archive footage)
1962 • 1 episode
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TV Show
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
1957 • 1 episode
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TV Show
This Week
Self
1981 • 127 episodes
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TV Show
The Emmy Awards
Self
1949 • 1 episode
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TV Show
NBC Nightly News
19700
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TV Show
The Sixties
Self (archive footage)
2014 • 10 episodes
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TV Show
The Seventies
Self
2015 • 8 episodes
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Movie
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
1968
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TV Show
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
Self (archive footage)
2020 • 1 episode
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Movie
Breakdown: 1975
Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
2025
Movie
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Self
1976
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Movie
4 Little Girls
Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997
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Movie
Powaqqatsi
(archive footage)
1988
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Movie
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self (archive footage)
2013
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TV Show
Huntley-Brinkley Report
Himself
1956 • 1 episode
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Movie
All Power to the People!
Self (archive footage)
1996
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Movie
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Self - Host
1997
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Movie
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2014
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Movie
Agnelli
Self (voice)
2017
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Movie
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
Narrator
1969