Astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise (played by Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton, respectively) were ...

Read on for some of Howard’s behind-the-scenes secrets about the movie. He accidentally peed himself in front of Kevin Bacon.

Ron Howard's Apollo 13 movie that tells the legendary story of a fated lunar mission is getting a re-release on IMAX on its ...

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Ron Howard Honors Real-Life 'Apollo 13' Hero After Death originally appeared on Parade. Legendary actor and director Ron Howard, 71, paid a heartfelt tribute to the real-life hero behind his ...

The director needed convincing from his dad, Rance Howard, to cast his own mom in the role of Jim Lovell's mother in the 1995 docudrama Ron felt that Jean was "a little too young for the role," he ...

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 ...

Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks) on board in his spacesuit in Apollo 13. Image via Universal Pictures Jim Lovell, the heroic NASA astronaut whose calm leadership during the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission ...

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 ...

More than 55 years ago, three Apollo 13 astronauts en route to the moon had to abandon plans to reach the lunar surface when their spacecraft encountered troubles. The astronauts' perilous journey ...

Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard married his high school sweetheart Cheryl in 1975, and they recently marked 50 ...

Legendary actor and director Ron Howard, 71, paid a heartfelt tribute to the real-life hero behind his Oscar-winning film Apollo 13, following the death of astronaut James “Jim” Lovell on August 7, ...