David Brinkley
Acting
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. Over the course of his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Notable Works
Prominent titles featuring David Brinkley
Powaqqatsi
1988
Agnelli
2017
Filmography
Acting (12)
2025
Breakdown: 1975as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
6.9
2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Mediaas Self (archive footage)
2017
Agnellias Self (voice)
7.3
2014
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Wordsas Self (archive footage)
7.2
2013
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logicas Self (archive footage)
7.1
1997
4 Little Girlsas Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
7.1
1997
The Trial of Adolf Eichmannas Self - Host
5.6
1996
All Power to the People!as Self (archive footage)
6.3
1988
Powaqqatsias (archive footage)
7.2
1976
NBC: The First Fifty Yearsas Self
1969
Gunsmith of Williamsburgas Narrator
5.2
1968
The Movie Orgyas Self (archive footage)
6.8