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Peter Jennings
Peter Jennings

Peter Jennings

Acting•Born July 29, 1938•Died August 7, 2005 (age 67)•Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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.

Known For

The Daily Show

The Daily Show

1996•TV Series•
6.4
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

1962•TV Series•
7.5
Great Performances

Great Performances

1971•TV Series•
6.1
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

1992•TV Series•
5.4
Explained

Explained

2018•TV Series•
7.5
The Nineties

The Nineties

2017•TV Series•
6.9
The Rosie O'Donnell Show

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

1996•TV Series•
4.1
World News Tonight with David Muir

World News Tonight with David Muir

1948•TV Series•
6.6

Filmography

2026
Jane Elliott Against the World

as Self (Archive Footage)

Movie
2025
Murder in Monaco

as Self - News Anchor (archive footage)

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

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2024
The White House Effect

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2024
People Magazine Investigates: Surviving a Serial Killer

as Self - News Anchor (archive footage)

TV
2022
Two Men at War

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2020
The Soul of America

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2019
The Devil Next Door

as Self(archive footage)

TV
2019
Cola Wars

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2018
Reversing Roe

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2018
King Bibi

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2018
Explained

as Self (archive footage)

TV
2018
RBG

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2017
The Nineties

as Self (archive footage)

TV
2017
The Reagan Show

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2016
All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2010
The Best That Never Was

as Self (Archive Footage)

Movie
2009
Dark Legacy

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2005
Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs - Seeing Is Believing
Movie
2004
The Tony Danza Show

as Self

TV
2004
American Dictators: Staging of the 2004 Presidential Election

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2004
Sesame Street: What's the Name of That Song?

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2003
Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty

as Narrator (voice)

Movie
2003
Peter Jennings Reporting: The Kennedy Assassination - Beyond Conspiracy

as Host

Movie
2003
JFK: Breaking the News

as Self (archive footage)

Movie
2003
JFK II: The Bush Connection

as Self - ABC News Reporter

Movie
2003
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration

as Self

Movie
2000
Peter Jennings Reporting: The Search for Jesus

as Host

Movie
1999
The Century: America's Time

as Self - Presenter

TV
1999
The Century

as Self - Narrator

TV
1996
The Daily Show

as Self

TV
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show

as Self

TV
1995
Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped

as Host

Movie
1993
The Last Party

as Self

Movie
1992
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

as Self (uncredited)

Movie
1992
The Missiles of October: What the World Didn't Know

as Self - Presenter

Movie
1992
Snowmotion: The Art of Sledding

as Self

Movie
1992
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
TV
1991
A Line In The Sand War Or Peace With Peter Jennings

as Self

Movie
1986
Titanic: The Nightmare and the Dream

as Self

Movie
1971
Great Performances

as Host

TV
1967
In Winter

as Self

Movie
1967
The In In Winter

as Self

Movie
1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

TV
1948
World News Tonight with David Muir

as Self - Anchor

TV

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayJuly 29, 1938
Day of DeathAugust 7, 2005
Place of BirthToronto, Ontario, Canada
Popularity0.2