Breakdown: 1975
2025 · Movie
as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
David Brinkley
1920-07-10
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Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
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
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
2020 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
No image
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Agnelli
2017 · Movie
as Self (voice)
The Seventies
2015 · TV Show
as Self
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2014 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Sixties
2014 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
4 Little Girls
1997 · Movie
as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997 · Movie
as Self - Host
All Power to the People!
1996 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Powaqqatsi
1988 · Movie
as (archive footage)
This Week
1981 · TV Show
as Self
NBC: The First Fifty Years
1976 · Movie
as Self
NBC Nightly News
1970 · TV Show
as Self
No image
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
1969 · Movie
as Narrator
The Movie Orgy
1968 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · TV Show
as Self (archive footage)
No image
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957 · TV Show
as Self
No image
Huntley-Brinkley Report
1956 · TV Show
as Himself
The Emmy Awards
1949 · TV Show
as Self
