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David Brinkley

Known for: Acting
Born: July 10, 1920
Died: June 11, 2003 · age 82
From: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

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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§ Known for

NBC Nightly News

1970 · Self

Powaqqatsi

1988 · (archive footage)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962 · Self (archive footage)

4 Little Girls

1997 · Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

2013 · Self (archive footage)

The Seventies

2015 · Self

The Sixties

2014 · Self (archive footage)

The Emmy Awards

1949 · Self

Breakdown: 1975

2025 · Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)

This Week

1981 · Self

NBC Nightly News

1970 · TV