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Birthday: Jul 10, 1920
Place of Birth: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

David Brinkley

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.

Filmography
Movie Cast Year
The Movie Orgy Self (archive footage) 1968
Gunsmith of Williamsburg Narrator 1969
4 Little Girls Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited) 1997
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words Self (archive footage) 2014
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic Self (archive footage) 2013
Agnelli Self (voice) 2017
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media Self (archive footage) 2018
All Power to the People! Self (archive footage) 1996
Powaqqatsi (archive footage) 1988
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann Self - Host 1997
Series Cast Year
NBC Nightly News 1970
The Emmy Awards Self 1949
Tonight Starring Jack Paar Self 1957
Huntley-Brinkley Report Himself 1956
The Seventies Self 2015
The Sixties Self 2014
Whose Vote Counts, Explained Self (archive footage) 2020
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