David Brinkley
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
1968
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
as Narrator
1969
4 Little Girls
as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Agnelli
as Self (voice)
2017
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self (archive footage)
2018
All Power to the People!
as Self (archive footage)
1996
Powaqqatsi
as (archive footage)
1988
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
as Self - Host
1997
Breakdown: 1975
as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
2025
NBC: The First Fifty Years
as Self
1976
TV Appearances
NBC Nightly News
1970
The Emmy Awards
as Self
1949
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
1957
Huntley-Brinkley Report
as Himself
1956
The Sixties
as Self (archive footage)
2014
The Seventies
as Self
2015
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
as Self (archive footage)
2020
This Week
as Self
1981
NBC Nightly News
as Self
1970
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self (archive footage)
1962