David Brinkley
July 10, 1920 – 2003
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.
Known For
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
1957
This Week
1981
The Seventies
2015
The Sixties
2014
The Emmy Awards
1949
NBC Nightly News
1970
Whose Vote Counts, Explained
2020
Breakdown: 1975
2025
The Movie Orgy
1968
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
Powaqqatsi
1988
4 Little Girls
1997
The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
1997