Grambling's White Tiger
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Georg Stanford Brown
Vance Davis
Dorsey Richards
Caitlyn Jenner
Katie Robinson
Levar Burton
Film Details
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Synopsis
The true story of James Gregory, an outstanding high school quarterback from California who, hoping to get into pro football, becomes the lone white student at Grambling College in Louisiana. Harry Belafonte made his TV dramatic debut as the famed Grambling coach Eddie Robinson, and the part of Gregory was the first starring role for sports star-turned-actor Bruce Jenner, whose production company co-produced the film. Jenner's manager since becoming an Olympic decathalon gold medalist in 1978, George Wallach, is the other half of Jenner/Wallach Productions. A dispute over screen credit for writing involved veteran Abby Mann, who was a script consultant on the project and supervised several rewrites, and the three writers finally credited, had to be arbitrated by the Writers Guild.
Director
Georg Stanford Brown
Cast
Vance Davis
Dorsey Richards
Caitlyn Jenner
Katie Robinson
Levar Burton
Harry Belafonte
Herbert Nelson
Fred Pinkard
Ray Vitte
Bill Overton
Byron Stewart
Dennis Haysbert
Deborah Pratt
Crew
William A Attaway
Bruce Behrenberg
Bruce Bisenz
Zev Cohen
John D'andrea
Bert Gold
Max A Keller
Micheline Keller
Michael Lloyd
Jacqueline Martin
Scoey Mitchlll
Louis A Potter
Fred Price
David Rosenbloom
George Wallach
Joseph M Wilcots
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Aired in United States October 4, 1981
