David Brinkley

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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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2025
Breakdown: 1975
Movie Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
2020
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
TV show Self (archive footage)
2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Movie Self (archive footage)
2017
Agnelli
Movie Self (voice)
2015
The Seventies
TV show Self
2014
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Movie Self (archive footage)
2014
The Sixties
TV show Self (archive footage)
2013
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Movie Self (archive footage)
1997
4 Little Girls
Movie Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Movie Self - Host
1996
All Power to the People!
Movie Self (archive footage)
1988
Powaqqatsi
Movie (archive footage)
1981
This Week
TV show Self
1976
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Movie Self
1970
NBC Nightly News
TV show
1969
Gunsmith of Williamsburg
Movie Narrator