Person
Tom Brokaw
Acting · Born 1940-02-06 · Webster, South Dakota, USA
Biography
Thomas John Brokaw is an American television journalist and author. He was the anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News for twenty two years (1982–2004). Brokaw is the only person to have hosted all three major NBC News programs: The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and, briefly, Meet the Press. He now serves as a special correspondent for NBC News and works on documentaries for other outlets
Known for
The Daily Show
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Late Show with David Letterman
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self
The Colbert Report
2005
The View
Self
60 Minutes
Self
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
Filmography
- 2025The Gettysburg AddressSelf
- 2024Trump's Big FUSS: Fight for US SovereigntySelf (archive footage)
- 2024The White House EffectSelf (archive footage)
- 2024Biden's DecisionSelf (archive footage)
- 2023Pretty Baby: Brooke ShieldsSelf (archive footage)
- 2023Bill Russell: LegendSelf - Author, Journalist & Longtime Admirer of Bill
- 2022Untold: Caitlyn JennerSelf - NBC News Anchor (archive footage)
- 2022Endangered
- 2022They Volunteered for This: Merrill's MaraudersNarrator
- 2022Joe Montana: Cool Under PressureSelf (archive footage)
- 2021FiascoSelf (archive footage)
- 2021Black Art: In the Absence of LightSelf (archive footage)
- 2020Katarina Witt - Weltstar aus der DDRSelf
- 2020Challenger: The Final FlightSelf (archive footage)
- 2019Alan Pakula: Going for TruthSelf
- 2019Cola WarsSelf (archive footage)
- 2019Mike Wallace Is Here(archive footage)
- 2019We Are ColumbineSelf
- 2018America's LibrarySelf
- 2018Breslin and Hamill: Deadline ArtistsSelf
- 2018The Front RunnerSelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2018The Mayo ClinicSelf
- 2018The 2000s
- 2018ExplainedSelf (archive footage)
- 2018RBGSelf (archive footage)
- 2018Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the MediaSelf
- 20181968Self
- 2017The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben BradleeSelf
- 2017Reflections on the Vietnam WarHost
- 2017Hamilton: Building America
- 2017Joan Didion: The Center Will Not HoldSelf
- 2017The NinetiesSelf (archive footage)
- 2017Oscar Arias: Without a Shot FiredSelf
- 2017LA 92Self (archive footage)
- 2016Crashing the PartySelf
- 2016Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own WordsSelf (archive footage)
- 2016Jackie RobinsonSelf
- 2015The Making of TrumpSelf (archive footage)
- 201541 on 41Self
- 2014All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star StateSelf
- 2014Iverson
- 2014D-Day: Normandy 1944Narrator (voice)
- 2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonSelf
- 2013Home for the Holidays: Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple SquareSelf
- 2013All the President's Men RevisitedSelf (uncredited)
- 2013The Passions & Politics of Ed Edelman: An Untold Story of LeadershipNarrator
- 2011iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the WorldSelf
- 2011VitoSelf (archive)
- 20119/11: In Our Own WordsHimself
- 2011Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a MockingbirdSelf
- 2010Buccaneers & BonesNarrator
- 2010America: The Story of UsHimself
- 2010America: The Story of UsSelf
- 2009Schabowskis Zettel - Die Nacht, als die Mauer fielTom Brokaw
- 2009The Tonight Show with Conan O'BrienSelf - Guest
- 2009Our Time
- 2009Late Night with Jimmy FallonSelf
- 2008Run for Your LifeHimself
- 2008KingHost
- 20071968 with Tom BrokawHimself
- 2007Star Wars: The Legacy RevealedSelf
- 2007Everything's CoolSelf (archive footage)
- 2006Paul Conrad: Drawing FireNarrator
- 2006This Film Is Not Yet RatedSelf - 1978 TV Newscaster (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2006Deep Throat: The Full Story of WatergateSelf
- 2006NBC News Presents: Survivor: The Aron Ralston StoryHimself
- 2005The Colbert Report
- 2005Last Best ChanceSelf
- 2005The Greatest Generation
- 2004Celsius 41.11Self (archive footage)
- 2004Tanner on TannerSelf
- 2004Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on JournalismSelf (archive footage)
- 2003Journalists: Killed in the Line of DutyNarrator (voice)
- 2003The Ellen DeGeneres ShowSelf
- 2002Vertical FrontierNarrator
- 2002NBC 75th Anniversary SpecialSelf
- 2002Journeys with GeorgeSelf (archive footage)
- 2002The Bush White House: Inside the Real West WingSelf
- 2001Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attackhimself
- 2001On Common GroundSelf - Commentator
- 1999When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the WorldSelf
- 1997The ViewSelf
- 1997Frank Capra's American DreamSelf (voice)
- 1996The Daily ShowSelf
- 1996The Rosie O'Donnell ShowSelf
- 1996Nichols and May: Take TwoSelf
- 1995SpinSelf (archive footage)
- 1993Late Night with Conan O'BrienSelf - Guest
- 1993Late Show with David LettermanSelf
- 1993Barbarians at the GateSelf
- 1992Commercial Entertainment ProductSelf (archive footage)
- 1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- 1989Common Threads: Stories from the QuiltSelf - News Reporter (archive footage)
- 1988LIVE with Kelly and MarkSelf
- 1986Mount Rushmore: The ShrineNarrator (voice)
- 1986American MastersSelf
- 1986Rag Dolly in the U.S.S.R.Narrator
- 1982Late Night with David LettermanSelf - Guest
- 1981Entertainment TonightSelf
- 1970NBC Nightly NewsSelf
- 196860 MinutesSelf
- 1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSelf
- 1952TodaySelf
- —Off Your DuffSelf
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