Jessica Savitch
Birthday
1947/02/01
Day of death
1983/10/23 (36 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Wilmington, Delaware, USA
Also know as
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Biography
Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947 – October 23, 1983) was an American television journalist who was the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Savitch was one of the first women to anchor an evening network newscast solo, following in the footsteps of Marlene Sanders of ABC News and Catherine Mackin of NBC News. She also hosted PBS's public affairs program Frontline from its January 1983 debut until her death as a passenge...Read more
Acting
(2018) Jonestown: The Women Behind the Massacre
as Self (archive footage)
(2002) Bowling for Columbine
as Self (archive footage)
(2020) Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
as Self (archive footage)
(1983) 88 Seconds in Greensboro
as Themself
(1977) Nasty Habits
as Self
(1993) Intimate Portrait
as Self (archive footage)
(1983) Frontline
as Self - Host
(2019) The Movies
as Self (archive footage)
(2016) The Eighties
as Self (archive footage)
(2015) The Seventies
as Self (archive footage)
(1982) Late Night with David Letterman
as Self
(1970) NBC Nightly News
as Self