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David Brinkley

David McClure Brinkley (July 10, 1920 – June 11, 2003) 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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Movie/TV Credits:
15
First Appeared:
In the series The Emmy Awards 1949-01-25
Latest Project:
Movie Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media 2018-03-24
Known For
Poster of This Week
Poster of NBC Nightly News
Poster of The Emmy Awards
Filmography
Movie Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media Self (archive footage) 2018-03-24
Movie Agnelli Self (voice) 2017-12-18
Series The Seventies Self 2015-06-11
Series The Sixties Self 2014-05-29
Movie Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words Self (archive footage) 2014-08-04
Movie Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic Self (archive footage) 2013-04-23
Movie 4 Little Girls Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited) 1997-07-09
Movie All Power to the People! Self (archive footage) 1996-06-01
Movie Mallrats TV Executive #1 1995-10-20
Series This Week Himself 1981-11-15
Series NBC Nightly News 1970-08-03
Movie Gunsmith of Williamsburg Narrator 1969-05-31
Movie The Movie Orgy Self (archive footage) 1968-01-01
Series Huntley-Brinkley Report Himself 1956-10-29
Series The Emmy Awards Unknown 1949-01-25