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