David Owen Plaut was born on September 2,1953 and is an American filmmaker and author.
17 Facts About David Plaut
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David Plaut was nominated for 12 national Sports Emmy Awards, and was a seven-time winner.
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Outside of NFL Films David Plaut authored five books, and was the book critic at USA Today Sports Weekly for fifteen years.
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David Plaut attended Cincinnati public schools until 1967, when his father accepted a job with KSDO radio in San Diego.
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Immediately following his graduation in 1971, David Plaut began a five-year association with the San Diego Chargers football team as a training camp administrative assistant.
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David Plaut returned to southern California at the beginning of summer to rejoin the Chargers after completing each of his undergraduate academic years at Northwestern University.
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In late spring 1976, David Plaut was offered a production job by Steve Sabol, president of NFL Films.
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In 1978 David Plaut produced his first long-form comedy, a one-hour special entitled Super Bowl: Laughter and Legend, hosted by Ed McMahon.
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David Plaut was part of the production crew that produced home videos celebrating the greatest moments in Philadelphia and Chicago sports history.
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David Plaut began producing 90-minute programs in the NFL's Greatest Games series, starting with his 1997 production of the Cowboys-Packers Ice Bowl.
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David Plaut would go on to produce a dozen shows in the series.
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David Plaut created and produced for ESPN an anthology series covering the greatest sporting events and personalities of the 20th century, Sports Almanac, which ran for two seasons.
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In 2001, as part of ESPN'S Black History Month programming, David Plaut wrote and directed Black Star Risen: The Alan Page Story, the first of two films he would ultimately produce on the life of the Hall of Fame player and Minnesota Supreme Court justice.
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David Plaut was the creator and co-showrunner for Caught in the Draft, a series devoted to the history of the NFL college draft.
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From 1991 to 2006 David Plaut was book critic for USA Today Baseball Weekly.
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In 2010 David Plaut collaborated with NFL Films colleague Greg Cosell and former NFL quarterback and ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski on The Games That Changed the Game: The Evolution of the NFL in Seven Sundays, published by ESPN Books.
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Edgar Award-winning author Stuart Kaminsky named one of the recurring characters in his Toby Peters mysteries series after David Plaut, who was a film student of his at Northwestern University from 1971 to 1975.