Actor

David Brinkley

11 credited titles on WatchWise

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.

David in one minute

Commercial scale

$6.0M

associated worldwide gross

Strongest genre

Thriller

$5.9M · 100% hit rate

Biggest hit

The Grudge 2

$39M

Standout efficiency

2.0x

The Grudge 2 · gross ÷ budget

Commercial performance

Associated lifetime gross

$6.0M

Combined reported budget

$3.8M

Gross / budget

1.6x

Bankability Index

18 / 100

All figures are associated, not attributed — box-office numbers are sourced from TMDB and Wikipedia (reused under CC BY-SA), shown in US$, and weighted by billing prominence. Coverage varies by title; figures are estimates, not audited trade data.