David Brinkley
July 10, 1920 (104 years old) in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2020 · Whose Vote Counts, Explained as Self (archive footage)
- 2018 · Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Agnelli as Self (voice)
- 2015 · The Seventies as Self
- 2014 · Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words as Self (archive footage)
- 2014 · The Sixties as Self
- 2013 · Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic as Self (archive footage)
- 1997 · 4 Little Girls as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1996 · All Power to the People! as Self (archive footage)
- 1970 · NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt as
- 1969 · Gunsmith of Williamsburg as Narrator
- 1968 · The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)
- 1957 · Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
- 1956 · Huntley-Brinkley Report as Himself
- 1949 · The Emmy Awards as Self