Acting · Wilmington, North Carolina, USA · Born July 10, 1920
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.
MovieBreakdown: 1975
2025
as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
TVWhose Vote Counts, Explained
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
as Self (archive footage)
MovieAgnelli
2017
as Self (voice)
TVThe Seventies
2015
as Self
MovieNixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2014
as Self (archive footage)
TVThe Sixties
2014
as Self (archive footage)
MovieRichard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
as Self (archive footage)
Movie4 Little Girls
1997
as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieThe Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
as Self - Host
MovieAll Power to the People!
1996
as Self (archive footage)
MoviePowaqqatsi
1988
as (archive footage)
TVThis Week
1981
as Self
MovieNBC: The First Fifty Years
1976
as Self
TVNBC Nightly News
1970
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
1969
as Narrator
MovieThe Movie Orgy
1968
as Self (archive footage)
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self (archive footage)
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
as Self
Huntley-Brinkley Report
1956
as Himself
TVThe Emmy Awards
1949
as Self
