David Brinkley

David Brinkley

Birthday: 1920-07-10

Deathday: 2003-06-11

Place of birth: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Also known as: David McClure Brinkley

imdb_id: nm0109604

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.

Played in movies:

Agnelli

Score: 7.5

Powaqqatsi

Score: 7.3

Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words

Score: 7.2

4 Little Girls

Score: 7.2

Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic

Score: 7.0

The Movie Orgy

Score: 6.5

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

Score: 5.8

All Power to the People!

Score: 5.8

Gunsmith of Williamsburg

Score: 5.2

Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Huntley-Brinkley Report

Score: 9.3

This Week

Score: 9.0

The Emmy Awards

Score: 7.9

The Sixties

Score: 7.4

The Seventies

Score: 7.4

Tonight Starring Jack Paar

Score: 7.0

Whose Vote Counts, Explained

Score: 6.5

NBC Nightly News

Score: 6.2