David Brinkley
Acting
🎂 1920-07-10
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.
Cast credits(17)
Self
1957
Self
1949
Self (archive footage)
2020
1970
Self
2015
Self
2014
Himself
1956
(archive footage)
1988
Self (archive footage)
1968
Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997
Self (archive footage)
2014
Self (archive footage)
2013
Self - Host
1997
Self (voice)
2017
Self (archive footage)
2018
Self (archive footage)
1996
Narrator
1969