David 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. Over the course of his career, Brinkley received ten Emmy Awards, three George Foster Peabody Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Powaqqatsi (1988) — (archive footage)
2. The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962) — Self (archive footage)
3. Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013) — Self (archive footage)
4. 4 Little Girls (1997) — Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
5. Whose Vote Counts, Explained (2020) — Self (archive footage)
6. Breakdown: 1975 (2025) — Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
7. Agnelli (2017) — Self (voice)
8. The Seventies (2015) — Self
9. The Sixties (2014) — Self (archive footage)
10. The Movie Orgy (1968) — Self (archive footage)
11. NBC Nightly News (1970)
12. Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words (2014) — Self (archive footage)
13. The Emmy Awards (1949) — Self
14. The Trial of Adolf Eichmann (1997) — Self - Host
15. All Power to the People! (1996) — Self (archive footage)
16. Tonight Starring Jack Paar (1957) — Self
17. Huntley-Brinkley Report (1956) — Himself
18. Gunsmith of Williamsburg (1969) — Narrator
19. This Week (1981) — Self
20. Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media (2018) — Self (archive footage)
21. NBC: The First Fifty Years (1976) — Self