David Brinkley
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.
Filmography (21)
Breakdown: 1975
Whose Vote Counts, Explained- Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Agnelli
The Seventies
The Sixties
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
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- Gunsmith of Williamsburg
The Movie Orgy
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson- Tonight Starring Jack Paar
- Huntley-Brinkley Report
The Emmy Awards