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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...