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.
Filmography
Cast Credits
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
Character: Self (archive footage)
TV • 2020
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2018
Agnelli
Character: Self (voice)
MOVIE • 2017
The Seventies
Character: Self
TV • 2015
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2014
The Sixties
Character: Self
TV • 2014
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 2013
4 Little Girls
Character: Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
MOVIE • 1997
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Character: Self - Host
MOVIE • 1997
All Power to the People!
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 1996
Powaqqatsi
Character: (archive footage)
MOVIE • 1988
This Week
Character: Self
TV • 1981
NBC Nightly News
Character:
TV • 1970
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
Character: Narrator
MOVIE • 1969
The Movie Orgy
Character: Self (archive footage)
MOVIE • 1968
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Character: Self
TV • 1957
Huntley-Brinkley Report
Character: Himself
TV • 1956
The Emmy Awards
Character: Self
TV • 1949