David Brinkley
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 10, 1920
- Died
- June 11, 2003
- Birthplace
- 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.
Filmography
Breakdown: 1975 2025
as (archive footage)
- Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media 2018
as Self (archive footage)
Agnelli 2017
as Self (voice)
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words 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)
NBC: The First Fifty Years 1976
as Self
- Gunsmith of Williamsburg
Gunsmith of Williamsburg 1969
as Narrator
The Movie Orgy 1968
as Self (archive footage)
Credits from TMDB.