David Brinkley
Born: 1920-07-10 in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Died: 2003-06-11
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2020
- Whose Vote Counts, Explained as Self (archive footage)
2018
- Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media as Self (archive footage)
2017
- Agnelli as Self (voice)
2015
- The Seventies as Self
2014
- Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words as Self (archive footage)
- The Sixties as Self
2013
- Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic as Self (archive footage)
1997
- The Trial of Adolf Eichmann as Self - Host
- 4 Little Girls as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
1996
- All Power to the People! as Self (archive footage)
1988
- Powaqqatsi as (archive footage)
1981
- This Week as Self
1970
1969
- Gunsmith of Williamsburg as Narrator
1968
- The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1956
- Huntley-Brinkley Report as Himself
1949
- The Emmy Awards as Self