Acting
David Brinkley
David McClure Brinkley was an American newscaster for NBC and ABC in a career lasting from 1943 to 1997.
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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.
Movies
Known for
Powaqqatsi1988 · (archive footage)3.6
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic2013 · Self (archive footage)3.5
4 Little Girls1997 · Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)3.6
Breakdown: 19752025 · Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)3.4ActuallyLike
Agnelli2017 · Self (voice)3.8
The Movie Orgy1968 · Self (archive footage)3.4
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words2014 · Self (archive footage)3.6
All Power to the People!1996 · Self (archive footage)3.2Cast
Cast credits
Powaqqatsi1988 · (archive footage)3.6Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic2013 · Self (archive footage)3.54 Little Girls1997 · Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)3.6Breakdown: 19752025 · Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)3.4ActuallyLikeAgnelli2017 · Self (voice)3.8The Movie Orgy1968 · Self (archive footage)3.4Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words2014 · Self (archive footage)3.6All Power to the People!1996 · Self (archive footage)3.2
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann1997 · Self - Host2.8GGunsmith of Williamsburg1969 · Narrator2.6
NBC: The First Fifty Years1976 · SelfHHope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media2018 · Self (archive footage)