Born 1920 (age 82) · Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Appears in 21 titles

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.

Filmography

Powaqqatsi
7.3
Powaqqatsi
1988
as (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
7.0
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
as Self (archive footage)
4 Little Girls
7.2
4 Little Girls
1997
as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
Breakdown: 1975
6.8
Breakdown: 1975
2025
as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
Agnelli
7.5
Agnelli
2017
as Self (voice)
The Movie Orgy
6.6
The Movie Orgy
1968
as Self (archive footage)
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
7.2
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2014
as Self (archive footage)
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
6.1
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
as Self - Host
All Power to the People!
6.3
All Power to the People!
1996
as Self (archive footage)
5.2
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
1969
as Narrator
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
as Self (archive footage)
NBC: The First Fifty Years
NBC: The First Fifty Years
1976
as Self