David Brinkley
Known for: Acting
Born: July 10, 1920
Died: June 11, 2003
Place of birth: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
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.
Advertisement
Filmography
12 movies · 8 TV shows, newest first
6.8
Breakdown: 1975
2025
6.7
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
2020NR
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
7.4
Agnelli
2017
7.4
The Seventies
2015
7.2
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2014
7.5
The Sixties
2014
7.1
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
7.1
4 Little Girls
1997
5.6
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
6.3
All Power to the People!
1996
7.2
Powaqqatsi
1988
9.0
This Week
1981
NR
NBC: The First Fifty Years
1976
6.8
NBC Nightly News
19705.2
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
1969
6.8
The Movie Orgy
19687.5
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
19579.5
Huntley-Brinkley Report
1956
7.9
The Emmy Awards
1949