David Brinkley
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.
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David Brinkley — movies and TV shows
7.5SeriesTonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
6.8SeriesNBC Nightly News
1970
9.0SeriesThis Week
1981
7.9SeriesThe Emmy Awards
1949
7.4SeriesThe Seventies
2015
7.4SeriesThe Sixties
2014
6.9FilmBreakdown: 1975
2025
6.7SeriesWhose Vote Counts, Explained
2020
6.8FilmThe Movie Orgy
1968
7.1FilmRichard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
7.1Film4 Little Girls
1997
5.6FilmThe Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997
7.2FilmPowaqqatsi
1988
7.2FilmNixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
2014
FilmNBC: The First Fifty Years
1976
6.3FilmAll Power to the People!
1996
7.3FilmAgnelli
2017