Gregory Widen

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1958-11-30 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Los Angeles County, California, USA

Gregory Widen

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Gregory Widen is an American screenwriter and film director. A student in UCLA's screenwriting program, he sold his script for Highlander while still an undergraduate. Before entering the UCLA program, Widen attended Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California. Widen worked as a firefighter for three years. He witnessed a person killed by an explosive backdraft, which became the basis for the screenplay for the movie Backdraft. In 1995 he wrote and directed the supernatural thriller The Prophecy starring Christopher Walken. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gregory Widen licensed u...

Acting

Production

1991

Backdraft

as Writer

1998

The Prophecy II

as Characters

1998

The Prophecy II

as Executive Producer

1995

The Prophecy

as Director

1995

The Prophecy

as Screenplay

1986

Highlander

as Screenplay

2006

2007

2005

1994

2000

Green Sails

as Writer

2017

OtherLife

as Writer

1988

Weekend War

as Writer

2000

Highlander: Endgame

as Characters

2019

Backdraft 2

as Writer

2019

Backdraft 2

as Co-Producer

2019

Backdraft 2

as Characters

2005

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