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David Brinkley

Known for: Acting

Biography: 1920-07-10

Deathday: 2003-06-11 (82 years old)

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.

Filmography

all 21

self 19

Movies 15

TV Shows 6

Narrator 1

Self (archive footage)

David Brinkley

Biography

Filmography

all 21

self 19

Movies 15

TV Shows 6

Narrator 1

Whose Vote Counts, Explained (2020)

Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth (2020)

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media (2018)

Agnelli (2017)

The Seventies (2015)

Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words (2014)

The Sixties (2014)

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013)

The Lost Kennedy Home Movies (2011)

The Loving Story (2011)

Life of Pryor: The Richard Pryor Story (2006)

4 Little Girls (1997)

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann (1997)

All Power to the People! (1996)

Powaqqatsi (1988)

NBC: The First Fifty Years (1976)

Gunsmith of Williamsburg (1969)

The Movie Orgy (1968)

Tonight Starring Jack Paar (1957)

Huntley-Brinkley Report (1956)

The Emmy Awards (1949)

Ratings

Information

Known ForActing

GenderMale

Birthday1920-07-10

Deathday2003-06-11 (82 years old)

Also Known AsDavid McClure Brinkley

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Known For
Acting

Gender
Male

Birthday
1920-07-10

Deathday
2003-06-11 (82 years old)

Also Known As
David McClure Brinkley