The actor portrayed the leader of the mission to the moon in the 1995 film. By Lexi Carson Associate Editor “There are people who dare, who dream and who lead others to the places we would not go on ...

Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks honored James Lovell, the American astronaut he portrayed in “Apollo 13,” with a heartfelt Instagram tribute to his courage, curiosity and fortitude. Lovell died Thursday ...

Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton), and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) experience the raw, earth-shaking power of ...

Tom Hanks is sharing a touching sendoff for Jim Lovell, the Apollo 13 commander Hanks portrayed in the Oscar-winning film of the same name 30 years ago. Hours after news of Lovell's death at 97 on Aug ...

Tom Hanks is paying tribute to Jim Lovell, who died Thursday at age 97. Hanks, who famously played Lovell in Apollo 13, described him in an Instagram post as the kind of person who “lead[s] others to ...

Jim Lovell, the commander of Apollo 13, died Thursday at the age of 97, NASA announced on Friday. Lovell, who helped turn a failed moon mission into a triumph of on-the-fly can-do engineering as ...

Tom Hanks has paid tribute to James “Jim” Lovell, the NASA astronaut he famously portrayed in the 1995 film Apollo 13, following his death at the age of 97. Lovell, best known for delivering the ...

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Tom Hanks as Jim Lovell in "Apollo 13" (Credit: Universal Pictures) Tom Hanks paid touching tribute to “Apollo 13” astronaut Jim Lovell on Friday as news of the 97-year-old’s death circulated online.