Olympic documentarian Bud Greenspan dies at 84

Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan, who presented his subjects 'as people first and athletes second,' won eight Emmys and a Peabody, died of Parkinson's disease on December 25, 2010, at the age of 84 in New York City.

Select filmography:

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

Via LA Times & Wikipedia.