Ron Howard admitted he didn't think his mother, Jean Speegle Howard, could play a role in Apollo 13. The actress took her false teeth out during an audition to prove she could play older. "I said, ...

Rance, who had a big influence on Ron’s life as a child actor, died in 2017 at age 89 Ron Howard is looking back at Apollo 13 and the role his dad, Rance Howard, played in the film. “I’m directing my ...

Ron Howard had doubts about casting his mother in Apollo 13 until he saw her without false teeth. The 71-year-old put his mum Jean Speegle Howard, in his 1995 space drama movie as astronaut Jim Lovell ...

Nearly a century ago, an uninhabited island in the Galapagos became home for several German expatriates who, as Ron Howard’s “Eden” makes clear, did not find paradise. Howard (“Apollo 13”) co-wrote, ...

Ron Howard, the Hollywood legend behind movies like Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind, was the director selected by Disney and Lucasfilm to carry on the Star Wars prequel spin-offSolo: A Star Wars ...

There’s a throwaway moment early in Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 that I find irresistible, and which unlocks the picture in interesting ways. It happens right after the 1969 moon landing, as astronaut Jim ...

Recently, yet another Apollo astronaut, Jim Lovell, passed on. Lovell’s fame was as defined by his role as a pop culture icon as it was by his astronaut heroics. Everybody who came of age during the ...

Tom Hanks may not be an actor known for impressions, but he does have one of his friend and director Ron Howard. And apparently, Howard himself tends to start acting like that impression while ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The film “Eden,” starring Jude Law and directed by Ron Howard, offers a gritty portrayal of Europeans attempting to create a paradise on a Galapagos Island, only to face brutal ...

Clint Howard insists his famous family aren’t ‘anything special’ The “Apollo 13” actor, who is Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard’s brother and Bryce Dallas Howard’s uncle, told Fox News ...