David Brinkley
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Jul 10, 1920 (106 years old)
Place of Birth
Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
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.
Known For
| 2025 | Breakdown: 1975Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage) | |
| 2020 | Whose Vote Counts, ExplainedSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2018 | Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the MediaSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2017 | AgnelliSelf (voice) | |
| 2015 | The SeventiesSelf | |
| 2014 | Nixon by Nixon: In His Own WordsSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2014 | The SixtiesSelf (archive footage) | |
| 2013 | Richard Pryor: Omit the LogicSelf (archive footage) | |
| 1997 | 4 Little GirlsSelf - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1997 | The Trial of Adolf EichmannSelf - Host | |
| 1996 | All Power to the People!Self (archive footage) | |
| 1988 | Powaqqatsi(archive footage) | |
| 1981 | This WeekSelf | |
| 1976 | NBC: The First Fifty YearsSelf | |
| 1970 | NBC Nightly News | |
| 1970 | NBC Nightly NewsSelf | |
| 1969 | Gunsmith of WilliamsburgNarrator | |
| 1968 | The Movie OrgySelf (archive footage) | |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSelf (archive footage) | |
| 1957 | Tonight Starring Jack PaarSelf | |
| 1956 | Huntley-Brinkley ReportHimself | |
| 1949 | The Emmy AwardsSelf |