Title: Space Camp (United States)
Content: The cast and crew of Apollo 13 visited Space Camp during pre-production. Tom Hanks, who portrayed James Lovell in the film, would return in 2006, as his son was attending at the time. Hanks also ate breakfast with some German rocket scientists. 
Title: Apollo 13 (film)
Content: Tom Hanks as Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell: Jim Lovell stated that before his book Lost Moon was even written, the movie rights were being shopped to potential buyers and that his first reaction was that Kevin Costner would be a good choice to play him. However, by the time Howard acquired the director's position, Costner's name never came up in serious discussion, and Hanks had already been interested in doing a film based on Apollo 13. When Hanks' representative informed him that a script was being passed around, he had the script sent to him. John Travolta was initially 
Title: Apollo 13 (film)
Content:  Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise. The screenplay by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission and is an adaptation of the 1994 book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. The film depicts astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise aboard Apollo 13 for America's fifth crewed mission to the Moon, which was intended to be the third to land. En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of much of its oxygen supply and electrical power, which forces NASA's flight controllers to abort the Moon landing and turns the mission into one of 
Title: List of Tom Hanks performances
Content:  1938 to achieve this feat. In 1995, he played astronaut Jim Lovell in the Howard-directed historical drama Apollo 13, and voiced Sheriff Woody in the animated film Toy Story (a role which he would reprise in three sequels). Hanks made his debut as a director and screenwriter with the 1996 musical comedy That Thing You Do! Later that year, he and Gary Goetzman founded the production company Playtone. In 1998, Hanks executive produced the Emmy Award-winning docudrama miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and starred in the Steven Spielberg-directed epic war film, Saving Private Ryan, which earned him his 
Title: Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
Content: Tom Hanks as Narrator (voice) [portrayed Jim Lovell in Apollo 13 and hosted From the Earth to the Moon eps. 1-11] ; John Corbett as Harrison Schmitt (voice) ; Andrew Husmann as David Scott ; Bryan Cranston as Buzz Aldrin (voice) [reprised From the Earth to the Moon role, portrayed Gus Grissom in That Thing You Do] ; Aaron White as James Irwin ; Matt Damon as Alan Shepard (voice) ; Gary Hershberger as Astronaut Grace ; Morgan Freeman as Neil Armstrong (voice) ; Scott Wilder as Astronaut Wallace ; Brandy Blackledge as Future Astronaut ; Scott Glenn as Charles Duke (voice) [portrayed Alan Shepard in The Right Stuff] ; Rick Gomez as Alpha Station Commander (voice) ; Colin Hanks as Conspiracy Neil Armstrong ; Bo Stevenson as Conspiracy Grip ; Frank John Hughes as Future Houston Capcom (voice) ; Tim 
Title: Apollo 13 (film)
Content:  The screenplay by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert was rewritten by John Sayles after Tom Hanks had been cast and construction of the spacecraft sets had begun. Producers had written the role of Jim Lovell with Kevin Costner in mind because of his facial similarities with the main character. Ultimately, Hanks was cast instead in that role because of his knowledge of Apollo and space histories. While planning the film, director Ron Howard decided that every shot of the film would be original and that no mission footage would be used. The spacecraft interiors were constructed by the Kansas 
Title: Apollo 13 (film)
Content:  the role of Lovell, but declined. ; Kevin Bacon as Apollo 13 backup Command Module Pilot Jack Swigert ; Bill Paxton as Apollo 13 Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise Ed Harris as White Team Flight Director Gene Kranz: Harris described the film as "cramming for a final exam." Harris described Gene Kranz as "corny and like a dinosaur", but respected by the crew. Apollo 13 would be Harris' second space travel-themed movie; he had starred as pioneering astronaut John Glenn in 1983's The Right Stuff. ; Gary Sinise as Apollo 13 prime Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly: Sinise was invited 
Title: Jim Lovell
Content:  About a month after the return to Earth of Apollo 13, Lovell and his crewmates, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert, appeared on The Tonight Show with host Johnny Carson. In 1976, Lovell made a cameo appearance in the Nicolas Roeg movie The Man Who Fell to Earth. Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger wrote a 1994 book about the Apollo 13 mission, Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, on which the 1995 Ron Howard film Apollo 13 was based. Lovell's first impression on being approached about the film was that Kevin Costner would be a good choice to portray him, given the physical resemblance, but Tom Hanks was cast in the role. In order to prepare, Hanks visited Lovell and Marilyn at their home in Texas and flew with Lovell in his private airplane. Kathleen Quinlan was nominated for a supporting 
Title: Ron Howard
Content:  leading performance. Howard's direction for the 1995 docudrama film Apollo 13 received praise from critics. The film stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton as the three astronauts members of the Apollo 13 flight crew, with supporting performances from Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, and Kathleen Quinlan. The film was a massive financial success earning $335 million off a budget of $52 million. The film received widespread critical acclaim with Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film in his review saying: "A powerful story, one of the year's best films, told with great clarity and remarkable technical detail, and acted without pumped-up histrionics." The film went on to receive nine Academy Award nominations including Best Picture.
Title: Meanings of minor planet names: 12001–13000
Content:  Tomhanks || || Tom Hanks (born 1956), American actor who starred in such films as Splash, Sleepless in Seattle, Apollo 13 and Saving Private Ryan, winning Oscars for his roles in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump. He was executive producer for the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, which dramatized the Apollo expeditions to the moon. || 12818· ; -id=819 ; 12819 Susumutakahasi || 1996 JO || Susumu Takahasi (born 1958), director of the Dynic Astronomical Observatory "Tenkyukan", is ardent about astronomical education and a fine observer of variable stars || · ; -id=820 ; 12820 Robinwilliams || || Robin Williams 

Question: who did tom hanks play in apollo 13?
Answer: Jim Lovell.