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The Aviator (17-Dec-2004)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writer: John Logan

Keywords: Drama, Biography, Los Angeles, Airplane Crash

Biographical drama depicts the early years of eccentric tycoon Howard Hughes' storied career.

ABSTRACT
The life of Howard Hughes, a billionaire businessman and financier whose eccentric endeavors in the fields of aviation and entertainment would ultimately give way to debilitating mental illness, receives a screen treatment in The Aviator, a Martin Scorsese-directed epic following the ever-enigmatic figure from early beginnings inheriting the Hughes Tool Company's fortune to a passion for aviation, relationships with a cast of Hollywood starlets, and a growing problem with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Alan Alda
Actor
28-Jan-1936   Capt. Hawkeye Pierce on M*A*S*H
Alec Baldwin
Actor
3-Apr-1958   A Baldwin Brother
Kate Beckinsale
Actor
26-Jul-1973   Pearl Harbor
Cate Blanchett
Actor
14-May-1969   Galadriel in LOTR
Frances Conroy
Actor
13-Nov-1953   Ruth Fisher on Six Feet Under
Willem Dafoe
Actor
22-Jul-1955   Last Temptation of Christ
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor
11-Nov-1974   Titanic
Kelli Garner
Actor
11-Apr-1984   Man of the House
Edward Herrmann
Actor
21-Jul-1943 31-Dec-2014 Richard Gilmore on Gilmore Girls
Ian Holm
Actor
12-Sep-1931   Time Bandits
Jude Law
Actor
29-Dec-1972   Gattaca
Josie Maran
Model
8-May-1978   Fashion model, sometime actress
John C. Reilly
Actor
24-May-1965   Boogie Nights
Matt Ross
Actor
3-Jan-1970   Alby Grant on Big Love
Adam Scott
Actor
3-Apr-1973   Ben Wyatt on Parks and Recreation
Brent Spiner
Actor
2-Feb-1949   Data on Star Trek: TNG
Gwen Stefani
Singer
3-Oct-1969   No Doubt
Loudon Wainwright III
Singer/Songwriter
5-Feb-1947   Rufus was a Tit-Man
Rufus Wainwright
Singer/Songwriter
22-Jul-1973   Gay Messiah
Kenneth Welsh
Actor
30-Mar-1942   Windom Earle on Twin Peaks

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