David Brinkley
Birthday: 10 July 1920, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
Birth Name: David McClure Brinkley
Brinkley hosted This Week with David Brinkley from 1982 until his retirement in 1997. In 1992, he won a Peabody Award for his report on the 50th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. As ...Show More
"Most of my life I've simply been a reporter covering things, and writing and talking about it." (19 Show more
"Most of my life I've simply been a reporter covering things, and writing and talking about it." (1992) Hide
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it. Most of the news isn't very impo Show more
The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it. Most of the news isn't very important. In fact, very little of it is. Hide
I wish to say that we all look forward with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring spe Show more
I wish to say that we all look forward with great pleasure to four years of wonderful, inspiring speeches, full of wit, poetry, music, love, and affection. Plus more goddamned nonsense. Hide
David Brinkley's FILMOGRAPHY
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