Peter Jennings

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 in 2005.

Known For

The Daily Show

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Great Performances

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Explained

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

The Nineties

World News Tonight with David Muir

All Movies (32)

• Jane Elliott Against the World2026 · as Self (Archive Footage)
• Murder in Monaco2025 · as Self - News Anchor (archive footage)
• Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• The White House Effect2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• Two Men at War2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Soul of America2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• Cola Wars2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Reversing Roe2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• King Bibi2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• RBG2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Reagan Show2017 · as Self (archive footage)
• All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone2016 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Best That Never Was2010 · as Self (Archive Footage)
• Dark Legacy2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs - Seeing Is Believing2005
• American Dictators: Staging of the 2004 Presidential Election2004 · as Self (archive footage)
• Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?2004 · as Self (archive footage)
• Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty2003 · as Narrator (voice)
• Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy2003 · as Host
• JFK: Breaking the News2003 · as Self (archive footage)
• JFK II: The Bush Connection2003 · as Self - ABC News Reporter
• ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration2003 · as Self
• Peter Jennings Reporting: The Search for Jesus2000 · as Host
• Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped1995 · as Host
• The Last Party1993 · as Self
• Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media1992 · as Self (uncredited)
• The Missiles of October: What the World Didn't Know1992 · as Self - Presenter
• Snowmotion: The Art of Sledding1992 · as Self
• A Line In The Sand War Or Peace With Peter Jennings1991 · as Self
• Titanic: The Nightmare and the Dream1986 · as Self
• In Winter1967 · as Self
• The In In Winter1967 · as Self

All TV Shows (13)

• People Magazine Investigates: Surviving a Serial Killer2024 · as Self - News Anchor (archive footage)
• The Devil Next Door2019 · as Self(archive footage)
• Explained2018 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Nineties2017 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Tony Danza Show2004 · as Self
• The Century: America's Time1999 · as Self - Presenter
• The Century1999 · as Self - Narrator
• The Daily Show1996 · as Self
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show1996 · as Self
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno1992
• Great Performances1971 · as Host
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1962 · as Self
• World News Tonight with David Muir1948 · as Self - Anchor