Portrait of Peter Jennings

Peter Jennings

Acting

Biography

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.

Born: July 29, 1938

Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Filmography

2024
Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer

as Self (archive footage)

2022
Two Men at War

as Self (archive footage)

2020
The Soul of America

as Self (archive footage)

2019
The Devil Next Door

as Self(archive footage)

2019
Cola Wars

as Self [Archival Footage]

2018
Reversing Roe

as Self (archive footage)

2018
King Bibi

as Self (archive footage)

2018
Explained

as Self (archive footage)

2018
RBG

as Self (archive footage)

2017
The Nineties

as Self (archive footage)

2017
The Reagan Show

as Self (archive footage)

2009
Dark Legacy

as Self (archive footage)

2003
JFK: Breaking the News

as Self (archive footage)

2003
JFK II: The Bush Connection

as Self - ABC News Reporter

1999
The Century: America's Time

as Self - Presenter

1999
The Century

as Self - Narrator

1996
1993
1967
In Winter

as Self