Acting credits
18
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Douglas Brinkley
Acting
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 13Series: 5Crew credits: 1
TMDB ID: 1236577
IMDb ID: nm1044906
Known for: Acting
Born: December 14, 1960
Age: 65
Place of birth: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1979 - 2026
Years active: 48
Average TMDB rating: 6.98
Also known as
Douglas Gregg Brinkley
Other jobs
Writer (1)
Biography
Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities, and professor of history at Rice University. Brinkley is a history commentator for CNN, Presidential Historian for the New York Historical Society, and a contributing editor to the magazine Vanity Fair. He is a public spokesperson on conservation issues. He joined the faculty of Rice University as a professor of history in 2007. Brinkley joined the board of directors for the National Archives Foundation in 2023.
Movies
Movie credits linked with Douglas Brinkley.
Disney Celebrates America: The Pursuit of Happiness
as Self
2026 Movie
Rather
as Self - Historian & Author
2023 Movie
Fandango at the Wall
as Self
2020 Movie
Public Trust
as Self - Professor of History at Rice University
2020 Movie
The Obama Years: The Power of Words
as Self - Presidential Historian
2017 Movie
Reagan: From Movie Star to President
as Himself
2016 Movie
Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker
as Self
2013 Movie
Henry Ford
as Himself
2013 Movie
Race
as Himself
2010 Movie
Theodore Roosevelt a Cowboys Ride to the White House
as Self
2010 Movie
Soul of a People: Writing America's Story
as Self
2009 Movie
Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride
as Self
2006 Movie
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry
as Self
2004 Movie
Series
Series credits linked with Douglas Brinkley.
Jesse Watters Primetime
as Self • 1 eps
2022 Series
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
1 eps
2018 Series
The Nineties
7 eps
2017 Series
The Colbert Report
1 eps
2005 Series
CBS News Sunday Morning
as Self • 2 eps
1979 Series