Gregory Allen Howard
Born January 28, 1952 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Died January 27, 2023
Gregory Allen Howard (January 28, 1952 – January 27, 2023) was an American journalist, playwright and Hollywood screenwriter. He is best known for composing the screenplay to Disney's award-winning mega movie staple Remember the Titans, a film chronicling the real life story of the racial barrier-breaking T.C. Williams High School football team recognized as the sports force to incite community integration in its notoriously Deep South-segregated Alexandria, Virginia, of 1971. Howard is the first African American screenwriter in Hollywood history to script a 00 million-generating motion picture drama, and the only African American screenwriter in film history to write a spec script that garnered 00 million in revenue. C-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
