
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.
Top Filmography

Powaqqatsi
1988 // MOVIE

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 // TV

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 // MOVIE

4 Little Girls
1997 // MOVIE

Whose Vote Counts, Explained
2020 // TV

Agnelli
2017 // MOVIE

The Seventies
2015 // TV

Breakdown: 1975
2025 // MOVIE

The Sixties
2014 // TV

The Movie Orgy
1968 // MOVIE

NBC Nightly News
1970 // TV

NBC Nightly News
1970 // TV

Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2014 // MOVIE

The Emmy Awards
1949 // TV

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997 // MOVIE