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David Brinkley

Jul 10, 1920 - Jun 11, 2003 (82 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.

Known For

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All Power to the People!
Self (archive footage)
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Agnelli
Self (voice)
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Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Self (archive footage)
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4 Little Girls
Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited)
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The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Self - Host
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The Emmy Awards
Self
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The Sixties
Self
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The Seventies
Self
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The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
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Whose Vote Counts, Explained
Self (archive footage)

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