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.
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Acting History
2020
Whose Vote Counts, Explained as Self (archive footage)
2018Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media as Self (archive footage)
2017Agnelli as Self (voice)
2015The Seventies as Self
2014Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words as Self (archive footage)
2014The Sixties as Self
2013Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic as Self (archive footage)
19974 Little Girls as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997The Trial of Adolf Eichmann as Self - Host
1996All Power to the People! as Self (archive footage)
1988Powaqqatsi as (archive footage)
1981This Week as Self
1970NBC Nightly News
1969Gunsmith of Williamsburg as Narrator
1968The Movie Orgy as Self (archive footage)
1957Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1956Huntley-Brinkley Report as Himself
1949The Emmy Awards as Self