David Brinkley
Birthday
1920/07/10
Day of death
2003/06/11 (82 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Also know as
David McClure Brinkley
Biography
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...Read more
Acting
(1968) The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
(1969) Gunsmith of Williamsburg
as Narrator
(1997) 4 Little Girls
as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
(2014) Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
(2013) Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self (archive footage)
(2017) Agnelli
as Self (voice)
(2018) Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self (archive footage)
(1996) All Power to the People!
as Self (archive footage)
(1988) Powaqqatsi
as (archive footage)
(1970) NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt
as ---
(1949) The Emmy Awards
as Self
(1957) Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self
(1956) Huntley-Brinkley Report
as Himself
(2014) The Sixties
as Self
(2015) The Seventies
as Self
(2020) Whose Vote Counts, Explained
as Self (archive footage)