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. Over the course of his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Known For

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

This Week

The Emmy Awards

The Seventies

NBC Nightly News

Whose Vote Counts, Explained

The Sixties

All Movies (12)

Breakdown: 19752025 · as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media2018 · as Self (archive footage)
Agnelli2017 · as Self (voice)
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words2014 · as Self (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic2013 · as Self (archive footage)
4 Little Girls1997 · as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann1997 · as Self - Host
All Power to the People!1996 · as Self (archive footage)
Powaqqatsi1988 · as (archive footage)
NBC: The First Fifty Years1976 · as Self
Gunsmith of Williamsburg1969 · as Narrator
The Movie Orgy1968 · as Self (archive footage)

All TV Shows (10)

Whose Vote Counts, Explained2020 · as Self (archive footage)
The Seventies2015 · as Self
The Sixties2014 · as Self (archive footage)
This Week1981 · as Self
NBC Nightly News1970
NBC Nightly News1970 · as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self (archive footage)
Tonight Starring Jack Paar1957 · as Self
Huntley-Brinkley Report1956 · as Himself
The Emmy Awards1949 · as Self