Cast & creator
David Brinkley
Best known for Tonight Starring Jack Paar, This Week, NBC Nightly News
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.
Also known as: David McClure Brinkley
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film credits
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television credits
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1949–2025 · acting roles
7.1
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (21)
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Tonight Starring Jack Paar
Self
1957
This Week
Self
1981
NBC Nightly News
1970NBC Nightly News
Self
1970
The Seventies
Self
2015
The Emmy Awards
Self
1949
The Sixties
Self (archive footage)
2014
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
Self (archive footage)
2020
Breakdown: 1975
Self - Co-Host, NBC Nightly News (archive footage)
2025
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
1968
NBC: The First Fifty Years
Self
1976
4 Little Girls
Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
1997
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self (archive footage)
2013
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Self - Host
1997
All Power to the People!
Self (archive footage)
1996
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Self (archive footage)
2014
Agnelli
Self (voice)
2017
Powaqqatsi
(archive footage)
1988Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Self (archive footage)
2018Huntley-Brinkley Report
Himself
1956Gunsmith of Williamsburg
Narrator
1969