David Brinkley
Actor
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.
Born1920-07-10
Place of BirthWilmington, North Carolina, USA
Known For
7.5
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Talk
7.5
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Talk
9.0
This Week
NewsWar & Politics
6.6
NBC Nightly News
News
7.4
The Seventies
Documentary
7.9
The Emmy Awards
7.5
The Sixties
Documentary
6.7
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
Documentary
6.8
Breakdown: 1975
Documentary
6.8
The Movie Orgy
ComedyDocumentary
7.1
4 Little Girls
DocumentaryTV Movie
7.2
Powaqqatsi
Documentary
7.1
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Documentary
7.2
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
DocumentaryHistory
NBC: The First Fifty Years
DocumentaryTV Movie
5.6
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Documentary
7.5
Agnelli
Documentary
6.3
All Power to the People!
HistoryDocumentary
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
DocumentaryTV Movie
9.5
Huntley-Brinkley Report
News
5.2
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
DocumentaryHistory