Brian Douglas Williams (born May 5, 1959) is an American journalist and television news anchor. He was a correspondent for NBC Nightly News starting in 1993, before his promotion to anchor and managing editor of the broadcast in December 2004. In February 2015, Williams was suspended by NBC News for six months for "misrepresent[ing] events which occurred while he was covering the Iraq War in 2003". Four months after the incident came to light, the network removed him from NBC Nightly News permanently and reassigned (demoted) him as the breaking news anchor for MSNBC. In September 2016, Williams became the host of MSNBC's political news show, The 11th Hour. Williams announced in November 2021 that he would be leaving MSNBC and NBC News at the completion of his contract the following month, when he hosted his final episode of The 11th Hour. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Williams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2024Untold: The Murder of Air McNair — Self - News Anchor, MSNBC (archive footage)
• 2021Rulon Gardner Won't Die
• Rock Center with Brian Williams — Host
• 2008Little Spirit: Christmas in New York — Rock Granite (voice)
• 30 Rock — Brian Williams
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Audience Member (uncredited), Self (uncredited)
• Sesame Street

Appearances as themselves (30)

• We're Back! With Brian Williams — Self - Host
• 2025Murder in Monaco — Self - News Anchor (archive footage)
• 2023Albert Brooks: Defending My Life — Self
• Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Beastie Boys Story — Self (archive footage)
• 2020My Darling Vivian — Self (archive footage)
• 2019We Are Columbine — Self
• Road to 9/11 — Self (archive footage)
• The Nineties — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Business of Disaster — Self - NBC Reporter
• 2016Relatively Free — Himself (Archival Footage) (uncredited)
• The 11th Hour with Brian Williams — Self - Anchor
• 2014Capturing Captain Phillips — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self, Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• 201212-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief — Self
• 2012Top Priority: The Terror Within — Self (archive footage)
• America: The Story of Us — Self
• 2010NASCAR Hall of Fame Biography: Dale Earnhardt — Self - Host
• 2010The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice! — Self
• 2010Unforgettable — Self
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon — Self - Guest
• 2009No Kidding, Me Too! — Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2009Yes We Can! - The Barack Obama Story — self / narrator
• Miley's New Year's Eve Party — Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• MS NOW Reports — Self
• The Daily Show — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• NBC Nightly News — Self