Peter Jennings
Known for: Acting
Born: July 29, 1938
Died: August 7, 2005
Place of birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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.
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Filmography
32 movies · 14 TV shows, newest first
9.0
Jane Elliott Against the World
2026
6.4
Murder in Monaco
2025
6.5
Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer
2024
6.0
The White House Effect
2024
7.3
People Magazine Investigates: Surviving a Serial Killer
2024
5.0
Two Men at War
2022
6.3
The Soul of America
2020
7.2
The Devil Next Door
2019
7.7
Cola Wars
2019
7.3
Reversing Roe
2018
7.1
King Bibi
2018
7.5
Explained
2018
7.5
RBG
2018
6.9
The Nineties
2017
6.5
The Reagan Show
2017
7.4
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone
2016
6.9
The Best That Never Was
2010
5.6
Dark Legacy
2009
7.5
Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs - Seeing Is Believing
20056.4
The Tony Danza Show
2004
5.4
American Dictators: Staging of the 2004 Presidential Election
2004
NR
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?
2004
NR
Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty
2003
6.8
Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy
2003
10.0
JFK: Breaking the News
2003
7.0
JFK II: The Bush Connection
2003
8.0
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2003
8.5
Peter Jennings Reporting: The Search for Jesus
2000
7.5
The Century: America's Time
1999
NR
The Century
1999
6.4
The Daily Show
1996
4.1
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
7.0
Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped
1995
6.4
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
5.2
The Last Party
1993
7.6
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
1992
NR
The Missiles of October: What the World Didn't Know
1992
NR
Snowmotion: The Art of Sledding
1992
5.4
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
NR
A Line In The Sand War Or Peace With Peter Jennings
1991
8.0
Titanic: The Nightmare and the Dream
1986
6.1
Great Performances
1971
NR
In Winter
1967NR
The In In Winter
1967
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
6.6
World News Tonight with David Muir
1948