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.

Filmography 21

Movies (12)

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

Shows (9)

Whose Vote Counts, Explained
2020
Self (archive footage)
The Seventies
2015
Self
The Sixties
2014
Self (archive footage)
This Week
1981
Self
NBC Nightly News
1970
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Self (archive footage)
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
Self
Huntley-Brinkley Report
1956
Himself
The Emmy Awards
1949
Self