Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
7/10/1920
Place of Birth
Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Also Known As
David McClure Brinkley
David Brinkley
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 Awar...
Known For
Agnelli
as Self (voice)
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
All Power to the People!
as Self (archive footage)
4 Little Girls
as Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
as Self - Host
The Movie Orgy
as Self (archive footage)
Powaqqatsi
as (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self (archive footage)