Peter Jennings
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 29, 1938
- Died
- August 7, 2005
- Birthplace
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings CM was a Canadian-born American television journalist who served as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005. Jennings was one of the "Big Three" news anchormen, along with Tom Brokaw of NBC and Dan Rather of CBS, who dominated American evening network news from the early 1980s until his death in 2005, which closely followed the retirements from anchoring evening news programs of Brokaw in 2004 and Rather in 2005.
Filmography
- 9/11 Tribute in Light: Live from Lower Manhattan
9/11 Tribute in Light: Live from Lower Manhattan 2026
as Self (archive footage)
Jane Elliott Against the World 2026
as Self (Archive Footage)
Murder in Monaco 2025
as Self - News Anchor (archive footage)
Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer 2024
as Self (archive footage)
The White House Effect 2024
as Self (archive footage)
Two Men at War 2022
as Self (archive footage)
The Soul of America 2020
as Self (archive footage)
Cola Wars 2019
as Self (archive footage)
Reversing Roe 2018
as Self (archive footage)
King Bibi 2018
as Self (archive footage)
RBG 2018
as Self (archive footage)
The Reagan Show 2017
as Self (archive footage)
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone 2016
as Self (archive footage)
The Best That Never Was 2010
as Self (Archive Footage)
Dark Legacy 2009
as Self (archive footage)
Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs - Seeing Is Believing 2005
Actor
American Dictators: Staging of the 2004 Presidential Election 2004
as Self (archive footage)
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song? 2004
as Self (archive footage)
Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty 2003
as Narrator (voice)
Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy 2003
as Host
JFK: Breaking the News 2003
as Self (archive footage)
JFK II: The Bush Connection 2003
as Self - ABC News Reporter
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration 2003
as Self
Peter Jennings Reporting: The Search for Jesus 2000
as Host
Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped 1995
as Host
The Last Party 1993
as Self
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media 1992
as Self (uncredited)
The Missiles of October: What the World Didn't Know 1992
as Self - Presenter, Writer
Snowmotion: The Art of Sledding 1992
as Self
A Line In The Sand War Or Peace With Peter Jennings 1991
as Self
Titanic: The Nightmare and the Dream 1986
as Self
- The In In Winter
The In In Winter 1967
as Self
In Winter 1967
as Self
Credits from TMDB.