Michael Olmert
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Michael Olmert is a professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park
and a writer. His specialty is British Literature. He has a Ph.D. from Maryland in medieval English literature.
He has written over 90 television documentaries, two plays, and two books. He has been awarded 3 Emmy Awards for his work on the Discovery Channel
. In 2002, he received one for writing Allosaurus: A Walking With Dinosaurs Special
. In 2003, he won for Walking With Prehistoric Beasts
. His third award came in 2006 for Before the Dinosaurs
.
Olmert's two plays are entitled Shakespeare and Lopez and Great Creating Nature. The two books he has published are Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella (1996) and The Smithsonian Book of Books (1992).
He was inducted into the University of Maryland Hall of Fame in 2005.
He currently lives in Wittman, MD.
University of Maryland, College Park
The University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...
and a writer. His specialty is British Literature. He has a Ph.D. from Maryland in medieval English literature.
He has written over 90 television documentaries, two plays, and two books. He has been awarded 3 Emmy Awards for his work on the Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...
. In 2002, he received one for writing Allosaurus: A Walking With Dinosaurs Special
The Ballad of Big Al
The Ballad of Big Al is a combination biography-sequel for Walking with Dinosaurs ...
. In 2003, he won for Walking With Prehistoric Beasts
Walking with Beasts
Walking with Beasts is a 2001 six-part television documentary miniseries, produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom, narrated by Kenneth Branagh. In North America it has been retitled Walking with Prehistoric Beasts, and the original Discovery Channel broadcast was narrated by Stockard Channing...
. His third award came in 2006 for Before the Dinosaurs
Walking with Monsters
Walking with Monsters is a three-part British documentary film series about life in the Paleozoic, bringing to life extinct arthropods, fish, amphibians, synapsids, and reptiles...
.
Olmert's two plays are entitled Shakespeare and Lopez and Great Creating Nature. The two books he has published are Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella (1996) and The Smithsonian Book of Books (1992).
He was inducted into the University of Maryland Hall of Fame in 2005.
He currently lives in Wittman, MD.