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Ron Howard Bio
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Ron Howard
One generation knows Ron Howard as young Opie from The Andy Griffith Show. Another generation remembers him fondly as the teenage Richie Cunningham from Happy Days. And today’s generation knows Ron Howard as one of the top directors of our time. In a business that seems to destroy the child stars it creates, Ron Howard successfully made the transition from child star to adult star, to a Hollywood heavyweight.
On March 1, 1954, Ron William Howard was born to Cheryl and Rance Howard, both actors. He began acting at a very young age. When Howard was two he had a bit part in the movie Frontier Woman (1956) with his father. By the time he was five he had a role in the movie The Journey (1959) with Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner. Several guest starring roles on television shows followed, including The Twilight Zone, Make Room for Daddy, and Dennis the Menace.
In 1960 Howard won the role that made him well known, Opie Taylor, the son of Andy Griffith on The Andy Griffith Show. He played Opie for eight years while continuing to take guest roles on other shows and acting in movies such as The Courtship of Eddie’s Father (1963). During this time Howard also gained an interest in what goes on behind the camera. His parents bought him a movie camera and he and his brother Clint made many amateur films together.
When The Andy Griffith Show ended, Howard continued with guest appearances. In 1972 he starred in an episode of Love American Style entitled “Love and Happy Days” that was meant to be spun off into a show about a family in the 1950’s. The networks didn’t go for it. However, in 1973 Ron Howard starred in American Graffiti as the film made the 1950’s cool again. In 1974 ABC picked up Happy Days, and he played the starring role of Richie Cunningham in one of the most loved sitcoms of all time.
Ron Howard didn’t have the proverbial messed up Hollywood child star life, and he hasn’t had the typical Hollywood marriage either. In 1975 he married his high school sweetheart Cheryl, and the two are still married today. They have four children.
After six years on Happy Days, Ron Howard left to pursue a career in directing. He wrote, directed and acted in his first feature film, Grand Theft Auto (1977) and has since gone on to direct many phenomenal films such as Splash (1984) with Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah, Parenthood (1989) with Steve Martin, Apollo 13 (1995) with Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon, Ransom (1996) with Mel Gibson, and A Beautiful Mind (2001) with Russell Crowe. Howard won a long awaited Academy Award for the film.
In 2006 Ron Howard released the much hyped, controversial The Da Vinci Code, again using Tom Hanks in a starring role. His next film is a remake of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, set for release in 2007. |
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Ron Howard - was a guest on Saturday Night Live |
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Ron Howard - Appeared with Paul Le Mat in American Graffiti |
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Ron Howard - Appeared with Charles Martin Smith in American Graffiti |
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Ron Howard - Appeared with Cindy Williams in American Graffiti |
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Ron Howard - Appeared with Candy Clark in American Graffiti |
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Ron Howard - Appeared with Mackenzie Phillips in American Graffiti |
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Ron Howard - Appeared with Wolfman Jack in American Graffiti |
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Ron Howard - Appeared with Bo Hopkins in American Graffiti |
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Ron Howard - Appeared with Manuel Padilla Jr. in American Graffiti |
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Ron Howard - Starred in The Andy Griffith Show with Andy Griffith |
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Ron Howard - Directed 'The Da Vinci Code' written by Dan Brown . |
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