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    David Brinkley

    1920-07-10 (103 years old) in Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

    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.

    Movies

    actor
    Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
    0 %|Mar 24, 2018
    Documentary, TV Movie
    poster
    Agnelli
    75 %|Dec 18, 2017
    Documentary
    poster
    Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
    74 %|Aug 4, 2014
    Documentary, History
    poster
    Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
    71 %|Apr 23, 2013
    Documentary
    poster
    4 Little Girls
    73 %|Jul 9, 1997
    Documentary
    poster
    All Power to the People!
    58 %|Jun 1, 1996
    History, Documentary
    actor
    Gunsmith of Williamsburg
    52 %|May 31, 1969
    Documentary, History
    poster
    The Movie Orgy
    58 %|Jan 1, 1968
    Comedy

    Series

    poster
    Whose Vote Counts, Explained
    66 %|Sep 28, 2020
    Documentary
    poster
    The Seventies
    74 %|Jun 11, 2015
    Documentary
    poster
    The Sixties
    71 %|May 29, 2014
    Documentary
    poster
    NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt
    61 %|Aug 3, 1970
    News
    actor
    Tonight Starring Jack Paar
    57 %|Jul 29, 1957
    Talk
    actor
    Huntley-Brinkley Report
    100 %|Oct 29, 1956
    News
    poster
    The Emmy Awards
    74 %|Jan 25, 1949