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Peter Jennings

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1938-07-29

Day of Death

2005-08-07

Place of Birth

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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.

Filmography (31)

⭐ 9.0 Role: Self (Archive Footage)

Jane Elliott Against the World

2026
⭐ 6.2 Role: Self - News Anchor (archive footage)

Murder in Monaco

2025
⭐ 6.2 Role: Self (archive footage)

Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer

2024
⭐ 6.1 Role: Self (archive footage)

The White House Effect

2024
⭐ 5.0 Role: Self (archive footage)

Two Men at War

2022
⭐ 6.3 Role: Self (archive footage)

The Soul of America

2020
⭐ 7.8 Role: Self (archive footage)

Cola Wars

2019
⭐ 7.3 Role: Self (archive footage)

Reversing Roe

2018
⭐ 7.1 Role: Self (archive footage)

King Bibi

2018
⭐ 7.5 Role: Self (archive footage)

RBG

2018
⭐ 6.5 Role: Self (archive footage)

The Reagan Show

2017
⭐ 7.2 Role: Self (archive footage)

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

2016
⭐ 5.6 Role: Self (archive footage)

Dark Legacy

2009
⭐ 7.5 Role: Unknown

Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs - Seeing Is Believing

2005
⭐ 5.4 Role: Self (archive footage)

American Dictators: Staging of the 2004 Presidential Election

2004