Peter Jennings

Actor Jul 29 (died age 67) Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1948–2025 (77 year career)

6.6 avg rating

Biography

Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings CM was a Canadian-born American television journalist who served as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005. Jennings was one of the "Big Three" news anchormen, along with Tom Brokaw of NBC and Dan Rather of CBS, who dominated American evening network news from the early 1980s until his death in 2005, which closely followed the retirements from anchoring evening news programs of Brokaw in 2004 and Rather…

Known For

Film

RBG

Self (archive footage)

Film

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

Self (uncredited)

Film

Reversing Roe

Self (archive footage)

Film

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

Self (archive footage)

Film

Murder in Monaco

Self - News Anchor (archive footage)

Film

Cola Wars

Self (archive footage)

Film

The Reagan Show

Self (archive footage)

Film

Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer

Self (archive footage)

Filmography

Acting (40)

Movies (27)

Murder in Monaco

2025

as Self - News Anchor (archive footage)

6.2

The White House Effect

2024

as Self (archive footage)

5.7

Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer

2024

as Self (archive footage)

5.9

Two Men at War

2022

as Self (archive footage)

5.0

The Soul of America

2020

as Self (archive footage)

6.3

Cola Wars

2019

as Self (archive footage)

7.8

King Bibi

2018

as Self (archive footage)

7.1

RBG

2018

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Reversing Roe

2018

as Self (archive footage)

7.3

The Reagan Show

2017

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

2016

as Self (archive footage)

7.6

Dark Legacy

2009

as Self (archive footage)

5.6

Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs - Seeing Is Believing

2005

8.0

American Dictators: Staging of the 2004 Presidential Election

2004

as Self (archive footage)

5.4

Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?

2004

as Self (archive footage)

JFK: Breaking the News

2003

as Self (archive footage)

JFK II: The Bush Connection

2003

as Self - ABC News Reporter

7.0

ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration

2003

as Self

Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy

2003

as Host

6.4

Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty

2003

as Narrator (voice)

Peter Jennings Reporting: The Search for Jesus

2000

as Host

8.0

Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped

1995

as Host

The Last Party

1993

as Self

4.9

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

1992

as Self (uncredited)

7.6

A Line In The Sand War Or Peace With Peter Jennings

1991

as Self

The In In Winter

1967

as Self

In Winter

1967

as Self

Television (13)

People Magazine Investigates: Surviving a Serial Killer

2024

as Self - News Anchor (archive footage)

7.0

The Devil Next Door

2019

as Self(archive footage)

7.1

Explained

2018

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

The Nineties

2017

as Self (archive footage)

6.9

The Tony Danza Show

2004

as Self

6.1

The Century: America's Time

1999

as Self - Presenter

8.0

The Century

1999

as Self - Narrator

The Daily Show

1996

as Self

6.4

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

1996

as Self

3.9

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Great Performances

as Host

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962

as Self

7.5

World News Tonight with David Muir

1948

as Self - Anchor

6.0