Peter Jennings
Gender: Male
Birthday: 1938-07-29 - 2005-08-07
Place of Birth: 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.
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Known For
1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1996The Daily Show
1993Late Show with David Letterman
1971Great Performances
1992The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tony Danza Show
2018Explained
1948World News Tonight with David Muir
1996The Rosie O'Donnell Show
2017The Nineties
2019The Devil Next Door
2025Murder in Monaco
2024People Magazine Investigates: Surviving a Serial Killer
2018RBG
2026Jane Elliott Against the World
2022Two Men at War
1999The Century: America's Time
2024