David Brinkley
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 10, 1920
- Place of birth
- Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
- Died
- June 11, 2003
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 with David Brinkley
- Powaqqatsi 1988 · ★ 7.2
- Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic 2013 · ★ 7.1
- 4 Little Girls 1997 · ★ 7.1
- Breakdown: 1975 2025 · ★ 6.9
- Agnelli 2017 · ★ 7.3
- The Movie Orgy 1968 · ★ 6.8
- Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words 2014 · ★ 7.2
- The Trial of Adolf Eichmann 1997 · ★ 5.6
- All Power to the People! 1996 · ★ 6.3
- Gunsmith of Williamsburg 1969 · ★ 5.2
- Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media 2018
- NBC: The First Fifty Years 1976