White Tiger (1923 film)
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Oct 4, 1981 · Grambling's White Tiger: Directed by Georg Stanford Brown. With Caitlyn Jenner, Dennis Haysbert, Bill Overton, Deborah Pratt. A young white goes to a historically-black college for the chance to be the starting quarterback.
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- Drama, Sport
- Georg Stanford Brown
- 1981-10-04
Grambling's White Tiger (also released as White Tiger in Europe) is a 1981 TV movie about the true story of Jim Gregory (played by Caitlyn Jenner, credited as Bruce Jenner) the first white quarterback of the Grambling Tigers at Grambling College, a historically black college, in 1962.
- My Little Brother's Coming Tomorrow, by Bruce Bahrenburg
- William A. Attaway
- Joseph M. Wilcots
- Georg Stanford Brown
With new laws passed which seek to promote racial integration, a small black college in Louisiana is faced with an opportunity to increase desperately needed federal funding by offering a football scholarship to a white athlete from California by the name of "Jim Gregory" (Bruce Jenner).
A young white goes to a historically-black college for the chance to be the starting quarterback. There he encounters considerable resentment and learns what it's like to be in the...
A young white man goes to a historically black college for the chance to be the starting quarterback. There he encounters considerable resentment and learns what it's like to be in the minority.
- Georg Stanford Brown
Produced by Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner, Grambling's White Tiger stars Jenner as real-life quarterback Jim Gregory. The film recounts Gregory's efforts to become the first white player on Grambling College's all-black football team.
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...
