David Brinkley
Acting
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.
Known for
2025Breakdown: 1975
Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
2017Agnelli
Self (voice)
2014Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2013Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self (archive footage)
19974 Little Girls
Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Self - Host
1996All Power to the People!
Self (archive footage)
1988Powaqqatsi
(archive footage)
1976NBC: The First Fifty Years
Self
1968The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)