David Brinkley
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self (archive footage)
1962
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
1957
Series
This Week
Self
1981
Series
NBC Nightly News
1970
Series
NBC Nightly News
Self
1970
Series
The Seventies
Self
2015
Series
The Sixties
Self (archive footage)
2014
Series
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
Self (archive footage)
2020
Series
The Emmy Awards
Self
1949
Film
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
1968
Film
Breakdown: 1975
Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
2025
Film
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self (archive footage)
2013
Film
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Self
1976
Film
4 Little Girls
Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997
Film
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2014
Film
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Self - Host
1997
Film
Powaqqatsi
(archive footage)
1988
Film
All Power to the People!
Self (archive footage)
1996
Film
Agnelli
Self (voice)
2017
Huntley-Brinkley Report
Himself
1956
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self (archive footage)
2018
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
Narrator
1969