Howard Gordon

Howard Gordon (born March 31, 1961) is an American television writer and producer.

He is well known for his work on the Fox action series 24 alongside the Showtime thriller Homeland, which he co-developed with Alex Gansa and Gideon Raff and the FX political drama Tyrant, which he co-developed with Craig Wright. He also produced the critically acclaimed but short lived NBC science fiction thriller Awake.

Life and career

Gordon was born in Queens, New York City and graduated from Roslyn High School. He grew up in a Jewish family. After graduating from Princeton in 1984, Gordon came to Los Angeles with fellow filmmaker Alex Gansa to pursue a career in writing for television. Both broke into the industry with single episodes of ABC's Spenser: For Hire. Their Spenser work turned industry heads, and the pair joined the Emmy-nominated series Beauty and the Beast as staff writers, and were later named producers.

In 1990, the Gansa-Gordon team was signed to a two-year deal with Witt-Thomas Productions, during which they produced several pilots. One was an ABC project called Country Estates, which caught the attention of famed producer Chris Carter.