David Brinkley

Known for ActingBorn 1920-07-10Died 2003-06-11Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Huntley-Brinkley Report

This Week

Agnelli

The Sixties

The Seventies

The Emmy Awards

Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words

4 Little Girls

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Powaqqatsi

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Breakdown: 1975

Whose Vote Counts, Explained

The Movie Orgy

All Power to the People!

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

NBC Nightly News

Gunsmith of Williamsburg

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

NBC: The First Fifty Years