# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/howard-sackler
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:30:59.312Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/howard-sackler"
name: "Howard Sackler"
slug: "howard-sackler"
description: "Howard Oliver Sackler was an American screenwriter and playwright who is best known for having written The Great White Hope and its film adaptation. The Great White Hope enjoyed both a successful run on Broadway and, as a film adaptation, in movie theaters. James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander both starred in the original Arena Stage production of the play in Washington, D.C., then brought their roles to Broadway and later to the film version. Both Jones and Alexander received Academy Award nominations for their work in the movie."
tagline: "American screenwriter (1929–1982)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Howard_Sackler_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-12-19"
deathDate: "1982-10-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.76
  momentum:             1.879021879021879
  historical:           7.699894666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0755274/"
    handle:    "nm0755274"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "هوارد ساكلير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Howard Sackler"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Sackler"
    title: "Howard Sackler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Sackler"
    title: "Howard Sackler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Sackler"
    title: "Howard Sackler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Sackler"
    title: "Howard Sackler"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Sackler"
    title: "Howard Sackler"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1553934"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/16188"
    title: "Howard Sackler"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump