David Brinkley
Known for
Acting
Born
July 10, 1920
Birthplace
Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Died
June 11, 2003 (aged 82)
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.
Best known work
Powaqqatsi
1988
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
4 Little Girls
1997
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
2020
Breakdown: 1975
2025
Agnelli
2017
The Seventies
2015
The Sixties
2014
The Movie Orgy
1968
NBC Nightly News
1970Filmography
2025
Breakdown: 1975as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
2020
2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Mediaas Self (archive footage)
2017
Agnellias Self (voice)
2015
2014
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Wordsas Self (archive footage)
2014
2013
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logicas Self (archive footage)
1997
4 Little Girlsas Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997
The Trial of Adolf Eichmannas Self - Host
1996
All Power to the People!as Self (archive footage)
1988
Powaqqatsias (archive footage)
1981
1976
NBC: The First Fifty Yearsas Self
1970
1969
Gunsmith of Williamsburgas Narrator
1968
The Movie Orgyas Self (archive footage)
1957
1956
1949