Known For
Acting
Known Credits
22
Gender
Male
Birthday
July 10, 1920 (106 years old)
Place of Birth
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.
| 2025 | Breakdown: 1975as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage) | |
| 2020 | Whose Vote Counts, Explainedas Self (archive footage) | |
| 2018 | Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Mediaas Self (archive footage) | |
| 2017 | Agnellias Self (voice) | |
| 2015 | The Seventiesas Self | |
| 2014 | Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Wordsas Self (archive footage) | |
| 2014 | The Sixtiesas Self (archive footage) | |
| 2013 | Richard Pryor: Omit the Logicas Self (archive footage) | |
| 1997 | 4 Little Girlsas Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1997 | The Trial of Adolf Eichmannas Self - Host | |
| 1996 | All Power to the People!as Self (archive footage) | |
| 1988 | Powaqqatsias (archive footage) | |
| 1981 | This Weekas Self | |
| 1976 | NBC: The First Fifty Yearsas Self | |
| 1970 | NBC Nightly Newsas | |
| 1970 | NBC Nightly Newsas Self | |
| 1969 | Gunsmith of Williamsburgas Narrator | |
| 1968 | The Movie Orgyas Self (archive footage) | |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carsonas Self (archive footage) | |
| 1957 | Tonight Starring Jack Paaras Self | |
| 1956 | Huntley-Brinkley Reportas Himself | |
| 1949 | The Emmy Awardsas Self |
