Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows FanStore News Showtimes

Howard Hughes

Highest Rated: 100% Neither Confirm nor Deny (2020)

Lowest Rated: 71% The Outlaw (1943)

Birthday: Dec 24, 1905

Birthplace: Humble, Texas, USA

Brilliantly innovative, with a reclusive bent, Howard Hughes was a significant figure of the first half of the 20th century. Buying his way into the American film industry with his share of a family fortune, the 25-year-old struck gold after the advent of talking pictures by funding the successful "The Front Page" (1931) and "Scarface" (1932). Inspired by the heroics of World War I pilots, Hughes mounted "Hell's Angels" (1930) as a one-man show, writing, producing, directing and personally overseeing the extensive aerial photography; though the film was a critical success and a hit with moviegoers, Hughes lost millions due to overspending. He quit Hollywood in 1932 to spend the next decade testing experimental airplanes, breaking speed records and circumnavigating the globe by air. Surviving multiple plane crashes but plagued afterwards by chronic pain, he would direct one more film, "The Outlaw" (1943), starring Jane Russell, before buying a controlling interest in RKO Pictures. RKO was later forced to declare bankruptcy, and the self-made billionaire retreated into a hermetic existence. Hughes lived the rest of his life in a series of hotel penthouses before dying aboard a private plane in April 1976. No less beguiling in death than he had been in life, Hughes retained a currency with the American public who remembered him as a mad genius who struggled at times, but nonetheless achieved great things.

Show Less Show More

Highest rated movies

100% Neither Confirm nor Deny Watchlist
89% 57% The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Watchlist
71% 64% Hell's Angels
Watchlist
71% 31% The Outlaw
Watchlist
Mad Wednesday
Watchlist
The Mating Call
Watchlist
38% Second Chance
Watchlist
10% The Conqueror
Watchlist
Vendetta
Watchlist
13% Underwater!
Watchlist

Filmography

Movies

Credit
100% No Score Yet Neither Confirm nor Deny Self - 2020
No Score Yet 64% Howard Hughes: The Real Aviator Unknown (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet 10% The Conqueror Producer - 1956
No Score Yet 13% Underwater! Executive Producer - 1955
No Score Yet 38% Second Chance Producer - 1953
No Score Yet 45% Two Tickets to Broadway Producer - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet Vendetta Producer - 1950
No Score Yet 36% The Tattooed Stranger Executive Producer - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mad Wednesday Producer - 1947
89% 57% The Sin of Harold Diddlebock Producer - 1947
71% 31% The Outlaw Director,
Producer
- 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cock of the Air Producer - 1932
71% 64% Hell's Angels Director - 1930
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Mating Call Producer - 1928