Howard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 April 5, 1976) was an American aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer, film director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He gained fame in the late 1920s as a maverick film producer, making big budget and often controversial films like Hell's Angels, Scarface, and The Outlaw. Hughes was one of the most influential aviators in history. He also set multiple world air-speed records (for which he won many awards, including the Congressional Gold Medal), built the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 "Hercules" (better known to history as the "Spruce Goose") aircraft, and acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines. Hughes is remembered today, however, for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle in later life, caused in part by a worsening obsessivecompulsive disorder. Hughes's legacy is maintained through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His first two films, 1927's Everybody's Acting and 1928's Two Arabian Knights, were financial successes, the latter winning the first ever Academy Award for Best Director of a Comedy Picture. 1928's The Racket and 1931's The Front Page were also nominated for Academy Awards. Hughes spent US$3.8 million to make Hell's Angels, a flying film, released in 1930. He produced another hit, Scarface, in 1932. Later he made The Outlaw, which featured Jane Russell, for whom Hughes designed a special bra (although Russell decided against wearing the bra because of a mediocre ...

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