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Filmography of Jim Lovell

Known as: Exploration

2 titles in the archive · first depicted 1961

Lived1928 – 2025

Shelfmark Vita CCXLIII

2
titles
2 films
3.8/5
average rating
across 2 rated titles
4h 41m
on screen
across 2 titles
100%
set in Space Race
2 of 2 appearances
2
appearances, all on film
never on television

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5 years of a 97 year life depicted onscreen

Distinct years the archive depicts, against Jim Lovell’s lifetime (1928 – 2025) — 5.2% of it.

Depicted in

19611965196719691970

First and Last on Screen

Earliest portrayalApollo 131995
Most recentFirst Man2018

23 years of cinema separate them. A series is sorted here by the first year of its release.

A series counts once, regardless of how many of its episodes feature them.

Historical Threads

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Apollo Programpull it on the timeline

Project

The successor to Projects Mercury and Gemini that began the United States' development of human spaceflight at the dawn of the Cold War, the Apollo Program represented a high-water mark of the Space Race with the first humans successfully setting foot on the Moon in 1969 as part of Apollo 11.

2 titles of theirs · filed under 1969

Runs throughSpace Race2 titles

The Box Office Ledger

What the films portraying Jim Lovell cost to make and took at the worldwide box office, as TMDB records them.

$122 million
in budgets
over 2 films with both sums
$461 million
at the box office
over 2 films with both sums
3.8×
return on budget
box office ÷ budget
Budget and box office of each film
FilmBudgetBox office
Apollo 13$52,000,000$355,237,933
First Man$70,000,000$105,713,218

US dollars as TMDB records them, not adjusted for inflation. 2 films of the 2 portraying them carry either sum.