David Brinkley

ActingBorn 1920-07-10Died 2003-06-11 (82)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.

David Brinkley

Known For

This Week

The Emmy Awards

Agnelli

The Sixties

The Seventies

4 Little Girls

Powaqqatsi

Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

Whose Vote Counts, Explained

Filmography

Breakdown: 1975

Whose Vote Counts, Explained

Agnelli

The Seventies

Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words

The Sixties

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

4 Little Girls

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

All Power to the People!

Powaqqatsi

This Week

NBC: The First Fifty Years

NBC Nightly News

The Movie Orgy

The Emmy Awards