Bud Greenspan is the author of "100 Greatest Moments in Olympic History." He has recently authored two additional books.
Greenspan is currently working on a 90-minute special production on the legends of boxing, one of four additional sports specials he is producing for SHOWTIME.
Greenspan has received numerous awards for his works.
In 1988 and in 1992, the International Olympic Committee commissioned Bud Greenspan and his company, Cappy Productions, Inc. to produce two films celebrating the Seoul and Barcelona Olympic Games, which premiered on The Disney Channel.
Bud Greenspan wrote, produced and directed a two-hour documentary drama titled "Time Capsule: The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games". The film is about if network television had existed in 1936, how it would have covered the Berlin Olympics and the world events of the day.
He produced a one-hour special for HBO Sports-The Golden Age of Sports, a show which highlighted sports heroes that included Babe Ruth, Bill Tilden, Bobby Jones, Jack Dempsey and Red Grange.
Greenspan and his wife (before her death) won an Emmy award for The Olympiad. Together, Cappy and Bud Greenspan built Cappy Productions into one of the most respected, independent production companies in the world.
Greenspan's other credits include Time Capsule., The Los Angeles Olympic Games of 1932, a ninety-minute docudrama broadcast by NBC, which recreated the world events of one of the most pivotal years of the twentieth century. Using the 1.932 Los Angeles Games as the central backdrop, 1932 featured a time-capsule look at the people and events that shaped this period.
Greenspan also wrote and directed The Heisman Trophy Award Specials in 1981-1985. Each year's special culminated in the announcement of that year's Heisman Trophy winner, live from the Downtown Athletic Club in New York.
Bud Greenspan has won widespread recognition in a variety of television formats.
Besides his award-winning films, Bud Greenspan has written several books, including Play It Again, Bud, and We Wuz Robbed, both dealing with famous controversies in the field of sports.
Bud Greenspan began his career as a sports broadcaster. At 21 he became sports director of radio station WMGM in New York City, then the largest sports station in the country. Greenspan broadcast such programs as Warm-Up Time and Sports Extra, the pre- and post-game coverage of the Brooklyn Dodgers. He also covered hockey, basketball, track and tennis events, play-by-play, from Madison Square Garden.
Greenspan turned to magazine writing. Since then, he has sold hundreds of fiction and non-fiction articles to major publications in the United States and is a frequent contributor to Parade Magazine.
Prior to forming his own film company in 1967, Greenspan produced television commercials for such agencies as the Lawrence Gumbinner Agency and Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample, Inc. and SSC&B in New York City.
