Jim Lovell Ride Way. Lovell's formal education consisted of the following: Lovell's awards and decorations include: 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. The introduction of this segment of the show is featured on "Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13" on the single disc DVD version of the movie. In 1976, Lovell made a cameo appearance in the Nicolas Roeg movie "The Man Who Fell to Earth". In 1995, actor Tom Hanks portrayed Lovell in the film "Apollo 13",
Tom Hanks seeing Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Ibsen, and all that." During his years studying theater, Hanks met Vincent Dowling, head of the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, Ohio. At Dowling's suggestion, Hanks became an intern at the festival. His internship stretched into a three-year experience that covered most aspects of theater production, including lighting, set design, and stage management, prompting Hanks to drop out of college. During the same time, Hanks won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his 1978 performance as Proteus in Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", one of the few times he played a