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David McClure Brinkley
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 Awar…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Breakdown: 1975
as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
as Self (archive footage)
Agnelli
as Self (voice)
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self (archive footage)
4 Little Girls
as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
as Self - Host
All Power to the People!
as Self (archive footage)
Powaqqatsi
as (archive footage)
NBC: The First Fifty Years
as Self
TV Shows
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep.
The Seventies
as Self · 8 ep.
The Sixties
as Self (archive footage) · 10 ep.
This Week
as Self · 127 ep.
NBC Nightly News
as Self · 152 ep.
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
as Self (archive footage) · 1 ep.
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
as Self · 1 ep.
Huntley-Brinkley Report
as Himself · 1 ep.
The Emmy Awards
as Self · 1 ep.