Howard Gordon

Howard Gordon
Gordon at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2011.
Born	(1961-03-31) March 31, 1961 (age 55) Queens, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Writer, producer
Notable awards	Emmy for Outstanding Drama 2006 24 2012 Homeland Emmy for Outstanding Writing 2012 Homeland: "Pilot Episode" shared with Alex Gansa and Gideon Raff
Spouse	Cami Gordon (3 children)

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 for the FX political drama Tyrant, which he co-developed with Craig Wright. He also produced the NBC science fiction thriller Awake.

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 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 producer Chris Carter.