Jonah J "Bud" Greenspan was an American film director, writer, and producer known for his sports documentaries.
11 Facts About Bud Greenspan
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Bud Greenspan overcame a lisp in adolescence and went into sports broadcasting after graduating from New York University.
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In 1947 Greenspan became sports director at New York City's WMGM, at that time the largest sports radio station in the US, when he was 21 years old.
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When he left WMGM, Bud Greenspan began contributing articles to magazines while producing television commercials.
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Bud Greenspan dabbled in documentary filmmaking in 1952, with The Strongest Man in the World, a 15-minute feature on weightlifter John Davis, but he began his filmmaking career in earnest in 1964, accompanying Jesse Owens to West Berlin to film Jesse Owens Returns to Berlin.
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Bud Greenspan won his first Emmy for 1976's The Olympiad, 22 hour-long documentary specials on the Olympics.
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Bud Greenspan authored a number of books, including several on the Olympics, a book of sports bloopers called Play It Again, Bud, and We Wuz Robbed, which addresses sports controversies.
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Bud Greenspan received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Directors Guild of America in 1995 and from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences at the 2006 Annual Sports Emmy Awards.
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In 1994, Bud Greenspan was inducted in the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
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Bud Greenspan Circuit, Lidcombe, is a street in a housing development on the site the media centre at the Sydney Olympics.
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Bud Greenspan died of Parkinson's disease on Christmas Day 2010, at the age of 84 in New York City.