David Brinkley
Acting
Born 1920-07-10
Died 2003-06-11
Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
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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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Filmography
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
This Week
NBC Nightly News
The Seventies
The Emmy Awards
The Sixties
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
Breakdown: 1975
The Movie Orgy
4 Little Girls
Powaqqatsi
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
NBC: The First Fifty Years
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Agnelli
All Power to the People!
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Huntley-Brinkley Report
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
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