Peter Jennings

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

as Self

RBG

as Self (archive footage)

Explained

as Self (archive footage)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media

as Self (uncredited)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

Reversing Roe

as Self (archive footage)

The Nineties

as Self (archive footage)

Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer

as Self (archive footage)

Great Performances

as Host