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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Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
1957 • 1 episode
This Week
Self
1981 • 127 episodes
The Seventies
Self
2015 • 8 episodes
NBC Nightly News
1970
The Sixties
Self (archive footage)
2014 • 10 episodes
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
Self (archive footage)
2020 • 1 episode
The Emmy Awards
Self
1949 • 1 episode
Breakdown: 1975
Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
2025
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self (archive footage)
2013
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
1968
4 Little Girls
Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997
Powaqqatsi
(archive footage)
1988
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Self
1976
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Self - Host
1997
Agnelli
Self (voice)
2017
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2014
Huntley-Brinkley Report
Himself
1956 • 1 episode
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self (archive footage)
2018
All Power to the People!
Self (archive footage)
1996
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
Narrator
1969