David Brinkley

Acting

1920-07-10

Died: 2003-06-11

Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Films

6.6

Avg Rating

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 Films

Highest rated performances

7.3

Documentary

Powaqqatsi

1988

7.0

Documentary

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

2013

Filmography

12 credits

2025Breakdown: 1975as Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)

6.4

2018Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Mediaas Self (archive footage)