David Brinkley
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 titles)
6.8MovieBreakdown: 1975
Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage) · 2025
6.6ShowWhose Vote Counts, Explained
Self (archive footage) · 2020
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self (archive footage) · 2018
7.5MovieAgnelli
Self (voice) · 2017
7.4ShowThe Seventies
Self · 2015
7.2MovieNixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Self (archive footage) · 2014
7.5ShowThe Sixties
Self (archive footage) · 2014
7.1MovieRichard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self (archive footage) · 2013
7.2Movie4 Little Girls
Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1997
5.6MovieThe Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Self - Host · 1997
6.3MovieAll Power to the People!
Self (archive footage) · 1996
7.3MoviePowaqqatsi
(archive footage) · 1988
9.0ShowThis Week
Self · 1981
MovieNBC: The First Fifty Years
Self · 1976
6.6ShowNBC Nightly News
1970
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
Narrator · 1969
6.7MovieThe Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage) · 1968
7.5ShowThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self (archive footage) · 1962
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self · 1957
Huntley-Brinkley Report
Himself · 1956
7.9ShowThe Emmy Awards
Self · 1949