David Brinkley
Born: 1920-07-10
Birthplace: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
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.
Known For
The Movie Orgy
Breakdown: 1975
NBC: The First Fifty Years
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Powaqqatsi
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
4 Little Girls
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
All Power to the People!
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Top Movie Credits
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
Breakdown: 1975
Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Self - Host
Powaqqatsi
(archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self (archive footage)
4 Little Girls
Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Self (archive footage)
All Power to the People!
Self (archive footage)
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self (archive footage)