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 ...

Apollo 13 director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer paid tribute today to Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated moon ...

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

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.

The Oscar-winning actor played the real-life commander of the 1970 space mission that nearly ended in tragedy.

Apollo 13, director Ron Howard's Oscar-winning dramatization of NASA's ill-fated mission to send astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon), and Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) to the Moon ...

"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 ...

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.