The 'Apollo 13' director celebrated the real-life astronaut's 'intellect, courage and commitment to duty' after his death.

EXCLUSIVE: Apollo 13 mission commander astronaut Jim Lovell, memorialized through Tom Hanks’ performance in the Best ...

Though Ron Howard has spent the latter part of his career behind the camera, directing movies like Apollo 13 and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, never forget that he started his career as an actor … ...

Tom Hanks has shared a tribute to James A. Lovell, the astronaut he portrayed in the 1995 feature “Apollo 13.” Lovell died ...

Apollo 13 (1995) was directed by Ron Howard and it is a dramatized account of the Apollo 13 lunar mission in the 1970s. William Broyles Jr.

Tom Hanks posted a tribute on social media to James Lovell, who died on Aug. 7. Lovell was a NASA astronaut known for ...

"Apollo 13" film star Tom Hanks honored his real-life counterpart Jim Lovell, who died Aug. 7 at 97. Director Ron Howard also ...

Directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, the late Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon, "Apollo 13" bills itself as "the dramatic true story" of how NASA engineers in Houston, Texas, worked with the ...

Astronaut Jim Lovell, whose history-making leadership of a near-disastrous 1970 moon mission was chronicled in the hit film ...

Apollo 13, Ron Howard's docudrama about a disastrous mission to the moon, turns 30 this month. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton led the cast, each playing the real-life astronauts who ...

Ron Howard, who directed "Apollo 13," reportedly went to great effort to ensure the on-screen depiction of the mission was as accurate and realistic as possible.