David Brinkley
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…
Known For
Powaqqatsi
(archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self (archive footage)
4 Little Girls
Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
Agnelli
Self (voice)
The Seventies
Self
The Sixties
Self
Breakdown: 1975
Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
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Filmography
Acting (20)
Movies (11)
Breakdown: 1975
2025as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018as Self (archive footage)
Agnelli
2017as Self (voice)
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2014as Self (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013as Self (archive footage)
4 Little Girls
1997as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997as Self - Host
All Power to the People!
1996as Self (archive footage)
Powaqqatsi
1988as (archive footage)
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
1969as Narrator
The Movie Orgy
1968as Self (archive footage)
Television (9)
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
2020as Self (archive footage)
The Seventies
2015as Self
The Sixties
2014as Self
This Week
1981as Self
NBC Nightly News
1970as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962as Self (archive footage)
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957as Self
Huntley-Brinkley Report
1956as Himself
The Emmy Awards
1949as Self
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