The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977)
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Taking over the already profitable Hughes tool company from his deceased father, the teenaged Howard Hughes (Tommy Lee Jones) turns the operation into a billion-dollar business. Along the way, he dabbles in film production, romancing such Hollywood lovelies as Katharine Hepburn (Tovah Feldshuh) and… More Taking over the already profitable Hughes tool company from his deceased father, the teenaged Howard Hughes (Tommy Lee Jones) turns the operation into a billion-dollar business. Along the way, he dabbles in film production, romancing such Hollywood lovelies as Katharine Hepburn (Tovah Feldshuh) and Billie Dove (Lee Purcell). Fame becomes notoreity as Hughes embarks on such projects as the "bosom western" The Outlaw and the "Spruce Goose." He also defiantly stands up to the HUAC-only to become one of America's most virulent anti-Communists. In his twilight years, the fabulously wealthy but increasingly paranoid Hughes lives like a down-and-out hermit in his high-rise Las Vegas suite, communicating only with his trusted associate Noah Dietrich (Ed Flanders), and then not even with him. Adapted from the memoirs of Noah Dietrich, The Amazing Howard Hughes originally aired April 13 and 14, 1977. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- William A. Graham
- Written By
- John Gay
- Genres
- Drama, Television
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Apr 13, 1977 Wide
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Cast
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Jim Antonio
as George
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Carol Bagdasarian
as Jean Peters
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Sorrell Booke
as Fiorello LaGuardia
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Morgan Brittany
as Ella Hughes
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Ray Buktenica
as Public Relations Man
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Thayer David
as Floyd Odlum
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Tovah Feldshuh
as Katharine Hepburn
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Ed Flanders
as Noah Dietrich
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Arthur Franz
as Barnes
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Denise Galik
as Shirley Whitehead
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James Hampton
as Wilbur Peterson
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Ed Harris
as Russ
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Wayne Heffley
as Dr. Bergman
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Howard Hesseman
as Jenks
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Tommy Lee Jones
as Howard Hughes
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Barney Phillips
as Saunders
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Lee Purcell
as Billie Dove
- Andy Romano
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Jerome Thor
as Council
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Russ McGinn
as Patrolman
