Walter J. Gottlieb
(Producer/Director/Writer)

Walter     WALTER J. GOTTLIEB is a freelance television writer, producer and director with nearly 25 years’ experience in non-fiction television.   He has written and produced for the Discovery Times Channel, HGTV, PBS Smithsonian Network, TLC, Lifetime, CBS, FOX, USA Networks, and the Military Channel, among others. 

      He recently produced, wrote, and directed Unbelievable Flying Objects for Smithsonian Network and scripted Hovercraft: Flying On Air, also for Smithsonian. 

      Walter was main contributing writer for the National Geographic Explorer host wraps unit, and has reversioned several documentaries for Discovery Times Channel’s World Wire series.
Walter’s work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle, among others.

     In 2006, he completed the PBS documentary, Heart & Soul: The Life & Music of Frank Loesser, a profile of the great American songwriter behind Broadway’s Guys & Dolls, which won a CINE Golden Eagle award.

     He produced, wrote, and directed a documentary on the history of his hometown, entitled Silver Spring:  Story of an American Suburb for WETA-TV (PBS) in Washington.  The film became WETA’s highest-grossing pledge special of 2002.

      Walter traveled to Russia as part of the documentary crew for a film entitled Red Moon, and shot a documentary on street children in Brazil, Honduras and Jamaica for the Inter-American Development Bank.

      Before becoming an independent producer, he launched and served as senior producer on two PBS series, This is America with Dennis Wholey and America:  Personal Conversations with Dennis Wholey, and co-produced Fox Television’s award-winning, rock ‘n roll political show, Off the Record. 

      He spent the first seven years of his career in the trenches of television news.  Walter is a graduate of New York University’s Film & Television school, with a double major in History. He is the winner of several awards, including two Emmy awards, CINE Golden Eagle, two Cindys, two Tellys, and two awards from the International Labor Communications Association.