Bud Greenspan

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Jonah Joseph Greenspan , (born September 18, 1926 in New York City , USA , † December 25, 2010 there ) was an American documentary filmmaker .

Life

Greenspan graduated from New York University at the age of 21 and then worked as a sports director for WMGM . He also worked as a newspaper sports journalist and television reporter and later also as a producer. In 1967 he founded the company Cappy Productions with his wife Constance Anne "Cappy" Petrash, who died of cancer in 1983 .

Greenspan was best known for his documentary about the Munich Olympic assassination in 1972 and other documentaries about various Olympic Games. He was the official documentary filmmaker of the Olympic Games seven times, starting with the 1984 Games in Los Angeles and ending in Salt Lake City in 2002. He was also responsible for "The Olympiad", a 1976 series of 22 hours. For this work he was awarded a first Emmy . He later received this award seven more times. He was also awarded the Peabody Award , an Olympic medal and an honorary doctorate from the United States Sports Academy in Daphne .

In 1995 he was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame . In 2004 he was inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame .

Greenspan, whose marriage to Petrash remained childless, later entered into both personal and business relationships with his employee Nancy Beffa . Greenspan, who had a surviving sister named Sarah Rosenberg, died at the age of 84 of complications from Parkinson's disease .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1968: Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin
  • 1971: The Glory of Their Times
  • 1976: The Olympiad
  • 1977: Wilma or The Story of Wilma Rudolph
  • 1979: Sports in America
  • 1981–1985: The Heisman Trophy Award Show
  • 1982: Time Capsule: The 1932 Los Angeles Olympics
  • 1984: 16 Days of Glory / Los Angeles
  • 1984: America at the Olympics
  • 1986: Time Capsule: The 1936 Berlin Olympics
  • 1987: For the Honor of Our Country
  • 1988: 16 Days of Glory / Seoul
  • 1988: An Olympic Dream
  • 1988: The Golden Age of Sport
  • 1988: 16 Days of Glory / Calgary
  • 1992: 16 Days of Glory / Barcelona
  • 1992: Mark Spitz Returns to Munich
  • 1994: 16 Days of Glory / Lillehammer
  • 1996: Atlanta's Olympic Glory
  • 1996: 100 Years of Olympic Glory
  • 1996: America's Greatest Olympians
  • 1996: Real Athletes / Real History: History of African-Americans at the Olympics
  • 1998: Nagano '98
  • 1988: Ageless Heroes
  • 2000: Favorite Stories of Olympic Glory
  • 2000: Kings of the Ring: Four Legends of Heavyweight Boxing
  • 2001: Sydney 2000: Gold from Down Under (2001)
  • 2002: The 1972 Munich Olympic Games: Bud Greenspan Remembers
  • 2002: Bud Greenspan Presents Michelle Kwan
  • 2002: Bud Greenspan's Stories of Winter Olympic Glory
  • 2003: Salt Lake 2002: Bud Greenspan's Stories of Olympic Glory
  • 2005: Whirlaway!
  • 2005: Bud Greenspan's Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory
  • 2006: The First Miracle: 1960 US Olympic Men's ice hockey team
  • 2007: Bud Greenspan Presents: Torino 2006 Olympics
  • 2009: Beijing 2008 America's Olympic Glory
  • 2009: A Time for Champions
  • 2010: Bud Greenspan Presents: Vancouver 2010 Stories of Olympic Glory

literature

  • "Current Culture Note", Siegener Zeitung of December 29, 2010, p. 23

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Honorary Doctorates. In: ussa.edu. United States Sports Academy, archived from the original on May 4, 2014 ; accessed on May 4, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Greenspan, Bud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greenspan, Jonah Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , USA
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 2010
Place of death New York City , USA