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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Powaqqatsi
(archive footage) · 1988
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self (archive footage) · 2013
4 Little Girls
Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1997
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
Self (archive footage) · 2020
Breakdown: 1975
Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage) · 2025
Agnelli
Self (voice) · 2017
The Seventies
Self · 2015
The Sixties
Self (archive footage) · 2014
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage) · 1968
NBC Nightly News
1970
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Self (archive footage) · 2014
The Emmy Awards
Self · 1949
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Self - Host · 1997
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self · 1957
All Power to the People!
Self (archive footage) · 1996
This Week
Self · 1981
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Self · 1976