Kranz On Film
Ed Harris played Kranz in the 1995 film, Apollo 13, and received an Oscar nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.
Dan Butler, a character actor better known for his portrayal of "Bulldog" Briscoe on the sit-com Frasier, portrayed Kranz in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon.
Matt Frewer, perhaps best known as Max Headroom, portrayed Kranz in the 1996 TV movie Apollo 11.
Gene Kranz has also been the subject of several documentaries based upon NASA film archives; the noteworthy ones being the 2004 Failure Is Not An Option narrated by actor Scott Glenn, co-star of the film The Right Stuff, in recurring broadcasts by the History Channel based on the best-selling book, and the 2008 Discovery Channel When We Left Earth narrated by actor Gary Sinise, co-star of the film Apollo 13. He is also prominently featured in the History Channel’s 2005 Beyond the Moon: Failure Is Not an Option 2, also narrated by Scott Glenn.
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