Ron Howard
Ronald William Howard( born March 1, 1954) is an American filmmaker and actor.
Howard first came to prominence as a child actor, guest- starring in several television series, including an episode of" The Twilight Zone".
He gained national attention for playing young Opie Taylor, the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor( played by Andy Griffith) in the sitcom" The Andy Griffith Show" from 1960 through 1968.
During this time, he also appeared in the musical film" The Music Man"( 1962), a critical and commercial success.
Howard was cast in one of the lead roles in the coming- of- age film" American Graffiti"( 1973), which received widespread acclaim and became one of the most profitable films of all time.
The following year, Howard became a household name for playing Richie Cunningham in the sitcom" Happy Days", a role he would play from 1974 through 1980.
Howard continued appearing in films during this time, such as the western film" The Shootist"( 1976) and the comedy film" Grand Theft Auto"( 1977), which also marked his directorial debut.
In 1980, Howard left" Happy Days" to focus on directing.
His films include the science- fiction/ fantasy" Cocoon"( 1985), the fantasy" Willow"( 1988), the thriller" Backdraft"( 1991), the historical docudrama" Apollo 13"( 1995), the Christmas comedy" How the Grinch Stole Christmas", the biographical drama" A Beautiful Mind"( 2001), the biographical sports drama" Cinderella Man"( 2005), the thriller" The Da Vinci Code"( 2006), the historical drama" Frost/ Nixon"( 2008),( 2018), and the documentary" Pavarotti"( 2019).
For" A Beautiful Mind", Howard won the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture.
In 2003, Howard was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Asteroid
12561 Howard is named after him.
He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2013.
Howard has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions in the television and motion pictures industries.
Tura Satana
Tura Satana( July 10, 1938 – February 4, 2011) was a Japanese American actress, vedette and exotic dancer.
From 13 film and television credits, some of her work includes the exploitation film" Faster, Pussycat!
Kill! Kill!"( 1965), and the science fiction horror film" The Astro- Zombies"( 1968).
Mr. Right (2009 film)
Mr. Right is a 2009 British film directed by David Morris and Jacqui Morris.
The jointly- made gay- themed film is the debut for both directors.
Edgar Cortright
Edgar Maurice Cortright( July 29, 1923 – May 4, 2014) was a scientist and engineer, and senior official at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration( NASA) in the United States.
His most prominent positions during his career were Director of NASA's Langley Research Center, and Chairman of the Apollo 13 Review Board which investigated the explosion that occurred during the Apollo 13 spaceflight in 1970.
Dirty Hands (disambiguation)
Dirty Hands may refer to:
Claude Chabrol
Claude Henri Jean Chabrol( 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave(" nouvelle vague") group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s.
Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean- Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine" Cahiers du cinéma" before beginning his career as a film maker.
Chabrol's career began with" Le Beau Serge"( 1958), inspired by Hitchcock's" Shadow of a Doubt"( 1943).
Thrillers became something of a trademark for Chabrol, with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity.
This is especially apparent in" Les Biches"( 1968)," La Femme infidèle"( 1969), and" Le Boucher"( 1970) – all featuring Stéphane Audran, who was his wife at the time.
Sometimes characterized as a" mainstream" New Wave director, Chabrol remained prolific and popular throughout his half- century career.
In 1978, he cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in" Violette Nozière".
On the strength of that effort, the pair went on to others including the successful" Madame Bovary"( 1991) and" La Cérémonie"( 1996).
Film critic John Russell Taylor has stated that" there are few directors whose films are more difficult to explain or evoke on paper, if only because so much of the overall effect turns on Chabrol's sheer hedonistic relish for the medium ...
Some of his films become almost private jokes, made to amuse himself."
James Monaco has called Chabrol" the craftsman par excellence of the New Wave, and his variations upon a theme give us an understanding of the explicitness and precision of the language of the film that we do n't get from the more varied experiments in genre of Truffaut or Godard."
Apollo 13 (film)
Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris.
The screenplay by William Broyles Jr., and Al Reinert dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission and is an adaptation of the 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 third Moon landing mission.
En route, an on- board explosion deprives their spacecraft of most of its oxygen supply and electric power, forcing NASA's flight controllers to abort the Moon landing, and turning the mission into a struggle to get the three men home safely.
Howard went to great lengths to create a technically accurate movie, employing NASA's technical assistance in astronaut and flight controller training for his cast, and obtaining permission to film scenes aboard a reduced gravity aircraft for realistic depiction of the" weightlessness" experienced by the astronauts in space.
Released to cinemas in the United States on June 30, 1995," Apollo 13" was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture( winning for Best Film Editing and Best Sound).
In total, the film grossed over$ 355 million worldwide during its theatrical releases.
The film was very positively received by critics.
Dirty Hands (2008 drama film)
Dirty Hands is a 2008 political drama.
The story shows war's cyclical nature and the psychological and human destruction ultimately caused to both sides.
Michael Kanfer
Michael Kanfer is a visual effects artist who is best known for his work on" Titanic" and" Apollo 13".
Innocents with Dirty Hands
Innocents with Dirty Hands a.k.a. Dirty Hands. is a 1975 psychological thriller film written and directed by Claude Chabrol.
Its title in French is Les innocents aux mains sales.
The film was based on the novel" The Damned Innocents" by Richard Neely.
The film had 553,910 admissions in France.

Question: Do both directors of films Innocents with Dirty Hands and Apollo 13 (film) share the same nationality?
Answer: no