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David Brinkley
Actor
Born July 10, 1920Died June 11, 2003 (82 years)
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.
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
| 2022 | Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island · as Self - Host, Nbc Nightly News With David Brinkley |
| 2021 | JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass · as Self - Host, Nbc Nightly News With David Brinkley |
| 2020 | The Mystery of D.B. Cooper · as Self |
| 2020 | Whose Vote Counts, Explained (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Jay Sebring.... Cutting to the Truth · as Self |
| 2019 | Apollo: Missions to the Moon · as Self - Nbc News |
| 2019 | WBCN and the American Revolution · as Self |
| 2018 | |
| 2018 | Quincy · as Self |
| 2018 | 7 Days in Entebbe · as Self |
| 2018 | Billy Graham: An Extraordinary Journey · as Self |
| 2017 | Agnelli · as Self (voice) |
| 2015 | The Seventies (2015) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2014 | The Sixties (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2014 | Killer Legends · as Self - Newscaster |
| 2013 | The Trials of Muhammad Ali · as Self |
| 2013 | Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2012 | Elvis Found Alive · as Self |
| 2011 | The Lost Kennedy Home Movies · as Self |
| 2011 | The Loving Story · as Self - Nbc News, Washington |
| 2011 | Runnin' Rebels of UNLV · as Self |
| 2011 | Kill the Irishman · as Self |
| 2010 | Lombardi · as Self |
| 2009 | The Movie Orgy · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2007 | 1968 with Tom Brokaw · as Self |
| 2007 | Sputnik Fever · as Self |
| 2002 | Pink Floyd the Wall Redux · as Self |
| 1997 | 4 Little Girls · as Self - Reports On Chambliss Trial (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1997 | The Trial of Adolf Eichmann · as Self |
| 1996 | All Power to the People! (the Black Panther Party and Beyond) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1995 | Nixon · as Self - Reporting Fbi Findings On Dean And Hunt |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1987 | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam · as Self - Nbc Newsman |
| 1986 | Our World (TV Series) · as Self - Nbc News Broadcaster |
| 1986 | Liberty Weekend · as Self - Host |
| 1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1983 | Sally Jessy Raphael (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1975 | Shampoo · as David Brinkley |
| 1970 | NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (TV Series) · as Self - Anchor |
| 1968 | 60 Minutes (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1957 | The Jack Paar Tonight Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1956 | The Huntley-Brinkley Report (TV Series) · as Himself |
| 1952 | Today (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1950 | The Jack Benny Program (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1950 | The Bob Hope Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1949 | The Emmy Awards (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1948 | The Perry Como Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1947 | Meet the Press (TV Series) · as Self - Panelist |