Michael Collins
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 31, 1930, Rome, Italy
- Died
- April 28, 2021
- Movies
- 20
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Michael Collins (born October 31, 1930 in Rome, Italy) was a former American astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was Gemini 10, in which he and command pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins undertook two EVAs. His second spaceflight was as the command module pilot for Apollo 11. While he orbited the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made the first manned landing on the lunar surface. He is one of only 24 humans to have flown to the Moon.
Prior to becoming an astronaut, he had attended the United States Military Academy, and from there he joined the United States Air Force and flew F-86s at Chambley-Bussieres Air Base, France. He was accepted to the USAF Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1960. He unsuccessfully applied for the second astronaut group but was accepted for the third group.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2024 | Hazardous Journey - The Apollo 11 Moon Landing | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Apollo 11: Quarantine | Himself |
| 2019 | Apollo: The Forgotten Films | Self (voice) |
| 2019 | Als keiner schlafen wollte - Die Mondlandung | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | On Camera: Fifteen Apollo Astronauts and Their Experience of a Lifetime | |
| 2019 | 8 Days: To the Moon and Back | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | The Day We Walked on the Moon | Self |
| 2019 | Apollo 11 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | First Man on the Moon | Himself |
| 2012 | Apollo 11: First Steps On the Moon | Self |
| 2009 | Youth in Revolt | Old Man |
| 2007 | In the Shadow of the Moon | Himself |
| 2004 | Astronauts Gone Wild: An Investigation Into the Authenticity of the Moon Landings | Himself |
| 1995 | Doomed Mission: The True Story of Apollo 13 | Self |
| 1990 | The other side of the Moon | Self |
| 1989 | For All Mankind | Self - Narrator - Apollo 11 (voice) |
| 1972 | Moonwalk One | Self |
| 1970 | The Infinite Journey | Self |
| 1969 | Footprints on the Moon | Himself |
| 1969 | The Eagle Has Landed: The Flight of Apollo 11 | Himself |
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