- one of the worlds most financially successful individuals in his lifetime
- businessman,pilot, film director, philanthropist
- late life - known for his eccentricity and reclusive lifestyle - worsening OCD pain from plane crash
- American/ Texas born
- Aged 12 - first boy of Houston to have a motorised bike - built himself from fathers steam engine parts
- Mum died 1922 - eptopic pregnancy / father died 1924 (him age 17/19)
- Successful in entertainment industry - won best director for comedy - made Hell’s angels/ produced Scarface - MASSIVE HITS
- Partnership with David Charnay - made the Conqueror
- Bought 25% of RKO studios (control) - massive lawsuit (financial misconduct and corporate mismanagement) / wanted to focus on manufacturing aircrafts for the Korean War (TWA holdings) - bought out all share holders and sold it on
- Made 6.5 million - personally during 25 years in entertainment industry
- Also lots of real estate investment
- Pilot and aircraft enthusiast - survived 4 plane crashes
- set lots of records i.e. flew around the world in 91 hours (1938)/ commissioned many technologically important aircrafts
- in 1953 - launched Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Miami- basic biomedical research - trying to understand the "genesis of life itself,”
- late life - lived in hotels around the world - in Dorset in (vegas) - his blinds rotted through because he can’t opened them in 9 years
- Died from liver failure on a flight - possible drug use/ reclusive behaviour = almost unrecognisable - weighed 90 pounds, long nails hair, beard
Imagery - travel, aircrafts, entertainment, real estate, OCD (imagery laid out orderly)
creativity - physics mix
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