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.
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6.9Breakdown: 1975
2025 · Movie · Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
6.7Whose Vote Counts, Explained
2020 · TV · Self (archive footage) · 1 ep
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018 · Movie · Self (archive footage)
7.3Agnelli
2017 · Movie · Self (voice)
7.4The Seventies
2015 · TV · Self · 8 ep
7.2Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2014 · Movie · Self (archive footage)
7.5The Sixties
2014 · TV · Self (archive footage) · 10 ep
7.1Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Movie · Self (archive footage)
7.14 Little Girls
1997 · Movie · Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
5.6The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997 · Movie · Self - Host
6.3All Power to the People!
1996 · Movie · Self (archive footage)
7.2Powaqqatsi
1988 · Movie · (archive footage)