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Peter Jennings
Born 1938-07-29Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings CM was a Canadian-born American television journalist who served as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005. Jennings was one of the "Big Three" news anchormen, along with Tom Brokaw of NBC and Dan Rather of CBS, who dominated American evening network news from the early 1980s until his death in 2005, which closely followed the retirements from anchoring evening news programs of Brokaw in 2004 and Rather in 2005.
Screen work
Movies & roles
Jane Elliott Against the WorldSelf (Archive Footage)Murder in MonacoSelf - News Anchor (archive footage)Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. SoccerSelf (archive footage)The White House EffectSelf (archive footage)Two Men at WarSelf (archive footage)The Soul of AmericaSelf (archive footage)Cola WarsSelf (archive footage)Reversing RoeSelf (archive footage)King BibiSelf (archive footage)RBGSelf (archive footage)The Reagan ShowSelf (archive footage)All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. StoneSelf (archive footage)The Best That Never WasSelf (Archive Footage)Dark LegacySelf (archive footage)Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs - Seeing Is BelievingRoleAmerican Dictators: Staging of the 2004 Presidential ElectionSelf (archive footage)Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?Self (archive footage)Journalists: Killed in the Line of DutyNarrator (voice)Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond ConspiracyHostJFK: Breaking the NewsSelf (archive footage)JFK II: The Bush ConnectionSelf - ABC News ReporterABC's 50th Anniversary CelebrationSelfPeter Jennings Reporting: The Search for JesusHostHiroshima: Why the Bomb Was DroppedHost