Howard Gordon

If you've ever lost a weekend to 24 or Homeland, Howard Gordon is part of why, and I find that quietly impressive. He's the showrunner-screenwriter type whose name rarely trends but whose fingerprints are on some of the tensest television of the era, from co-developing Homeland with Alex Gansa and Gideon Raff to Tyrant and Accused. A Princeton graduate out of Queens with a Primetime Emmy for drama writing, he embodies the behind-the-camera architect I always want to credit more. The actors get the magazine covers, but it's people like Gordon who actually build the worlds we binge.

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Name (English)

Howard Gordon

Name (Japanese)

ハワード・ゴードン

Reading

はわーど・ごーどん

Born

March 31, 1961 (age 65)

Origin

Queens, New York, United States

Occupation

television director / screenwriter / film producer / television producer / showrunner

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Ox

High school

Roslyn High School

University

Princeton University

Awards & achievements

• Primetime Emmy Award
• 2012 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series

• Official sitehttps://howardmgordon.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/HowardMGordon
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Gordon
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2410088

Tags

• New York
• television director
• screenwriter
• film producer

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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