David Brinkley
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1920-07-10
Day of Death
2003-06-11 (82 years old)
Place of Birth
Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
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
Acting
(2018)
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self (archive footage)
(2017)
Agnelli
as Self (voice)
(2014)
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
(2013)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self (archive footage)
(1997)
4 Little Girls
as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
(1997)
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
as Self - Host
(1996)
All Power to the People!
as Self (archive footage)
(1988)
Powaqqatsi
as (archive footage)
(1969)
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
as Narrator
(1968)
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)