Ron Howard

Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American filmmaker and actor. Howard first came to prominence as a child actor, guest-starring in several television series, including an episode of The Twilight Zone. He gained national attention for playing young Opie Taylor, the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor (played by Andy Griffith) in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show from 1960 through 1968. During this time, he also appeared in the musical film The Music Man (1962), a critical and commercial success. He was credited as Ronny Howard in his film and television appearances from 1959 to 1973. Howard was cast in one of the lead roles in the coming-of-age film American Graffiti (1973), which received widespread acclaim and became one of the most profitable films in history. The following year, Howard became a household name for playing Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days, a role he would play from 1974 through 1984. Howard continued appearing in films during this time, such as the western film The Shootist (1976) and the comedy film Grand Theft Auto (1977), which also marked his directorial debut. In 1984, Howard left Happy Days to focus on directing, producing and occasionally writing variety films and television series. His films include the science-fiction/fantasy Cocoon (1985), the fantasy Willow (1988), the thriller Backdraft (1991), the historical docudrama Apollo 13 (1995), the Christmas comedy How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), the biographical drama A Beautiful Mind (2001), the biographical sports drama Cinderella Man (2005), the thriller The Da Vinci Code (2006), the historical drama Frost/Nixon (2008), Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), and the documentary Pavarotti (2019). For A Beautiful Mind, Howard won the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture. He was nominated again for the same awards for Frost/Nixon. In 2003, Howard was awarded the National Medal of Arts. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2013. Howard has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions in the television and motion pictures industries. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ron Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Directing

Born: Duncan, Oklahoma, USA, 1954-03-01

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	The Journey	Billy Rhinelander	64
2	1961	Five Minutes to Live	Bobby Wilson	57
3	1962	The Music Man	Winthrop Paroo	71
4	1963	The Courtship of Eddie's Father	Eddie Corbett	60
5	1965	Village of the Giants	Genius	35
6	1967	A Boy Called Nuthin’	Richie 'Nuthin'' Caldwell	0
7	1970	Smoke	Chris (as Ronny Howard)	0
8	1970	The Wild Country	Virgil Tanner	60
9	1973	American Graffiti	Steve Bolander	70
10	1973	Happy Mother's Day, Love George	Johnny	60
11	1974	The Migrants	Lyle Barlow	57
12	1974	The Spikes Gang	Les	67
13	1974	Locusts	Donny Fletcher	48
14	1975	Huckleberry Finn	Huckleberry Finn	60
15	1976	The First Nudie Musical	Auditioning Actor	50
16	1976	Eat My Dust	Hoover Niebold	57
17	1976	The Shootist	Gillom Rogers	71
18	1976	A Special: Olivia Newton-John		70
19	1977	I'm a Fool	Andy	0
20	1977	Grand Theft Auto	Sam Freeman	53
21	1978	Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel	Self	74
22	1978	NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney	Self - Host	0
23	1979	Sitcom: The Adventures of Garry Marshall	Self	0
24	1979	A Walking Tour of Sesame Street	Richie Cunningham (archive footage)	0
25	1979	More American Graffiti	Steve Bolander	51
26	1980	Act of Love	Leon Cybulkowski	50
27	1981	Bitter Harvest	Ned De Vries	10
28	1981	Fire on the Mountain	Lee Mackie	70
29	1982	Night Shift	Annoying Sax Player (uncredited)	60
30	1985	Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers	Self (archive footage)	0
31	1986	Return to Mayberry	Opie Taylor	62
32	1988	Willow: The Making of an Adventure	Self - Director	68
33	1989	First Works	Self	0
34	1992	The Magical World of Chuck Jones	Self	80
35	1996	Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial	Herbert Biberman	0
36	1996	Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13	Self	58
37	1997	Frank Capra's American Dream	Self	62
38	1997	Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery	Self	0
39	1997	Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero	Self	0
40	1998	The Making of 'American Graffiti'	Self	78
41	1998	Welcome to Hollywood	Ron Howard	39
42	1999	Television: The First Fifty Years	Self / Opie Taylor / Ritchie Cunningham (archive footage)	0
43	1999	The Directors: The Films of Roger Corman	Self	60
44	1999	From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic	Self	81
45	2000	Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation	Self	68
46	2000	The Independent	Ron Howard	57
47	2001	The Shootist: The Legend Lives On	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	70
48	2001	Osmosis Jones	Tom Colonic (voice)	65
49	2002	Inside a Beautiful Mind	Self	50
50	2002	Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages	Self	60
51	2004	Weezer: Video Capture Device - Treasures from the Vault 1991-2002	Richie Cunningham ("Buddy Holly") (archive footage)	90
52	2004	Making a 'Splash'	Self - Director	46
53	2004	Tell Them Who You Are	Self	58
54	2005	George Lucas: Creating an Empire	Self	0
55	2007	Cannes: All Access	Self	37
56	2008	Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film	Self	0
57	2010	Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story	Self	60
58	2010	Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible	Self	67
59	2011	Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored	Richie Cunningham (archive footage)	0
60	2011	Sheldon Leonard's Wonderful Life	Self	100
61	2011	Corman's World	Self - Filmmaker	71
62	2012	Radioman	Self	57
63	2013	From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking	Self - Director	37
64	2013	Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck	Self	61
65	2013	The Arrested Development Documentary Project	Self	57
66	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
67	2016	Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie	Himself	54
68	2017	Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies	Self	54
69	2018	Kasdan on Kasdan	Self	0
70	2019	Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10	Self	63
71	2019	Dads	Self	67
72	2019	The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration	Wilcox Boy (archive footage)	100
73	2020	The Happy Days of Garry Marshall	Self	77
74	2020	Showbiz Kids	Self (archive footage)	68
75	2021	Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema	Self	60
76	2022	1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!	Self	80
77	2022	Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel	Self	71
78	2022	'Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen	Self	50
79	2023	Willow: Behind the Magic	Self - Director, Willow, 1988 / Executive Producer, Willow, 2022	39
80	2023	John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons	Self	0
81	2023	Tom Hanks: The Nomad	Self (archive footage)	51
82	2024	Music by John Williams	Self - Filmmaker	80

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	68
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	68
3	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Accepting Award for Best Motion Picture Drama /Nominee	68
4	1950	The Bob Hope Show	Self	70
5	1953	General Electric Theater	Barnaby Baxter	60
6	1953	General Electric Theater	Randy	60
7	1953	The Oscars	Self	69
8	1953	The Danny Thomas Show	Opie Taylor	60
9	1954	Lassie		61
10	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Chris	76
11	1955	Gunsmoke	Jamie	66
12	1959	Bonanza	Ted Hoag	75
13	1959	The DuPont Show with June Allyson	Wim	63
14	1959	The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis		58
15	1959	The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis	Little Boy Eating Candy Bar	58
16	1959	The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis	Little Boy with Ray Gun	58
17	1959	Johnny Ringo	Ricky Parrott	57
18	1959	The Twilight Zone	Wilcox Boy	84
19	1959	Dennis the Menace		65
20	1959	Five Fingers		0
21	1959	Dennis the Menace	Stewart	65
22	1960	Pete and Gladys		65
23	1960	Insight		60
24	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Opie Taylor	76
25	1960	Route 66		63
26	1961	Dr. Kildare	Jerry Prentice	53
27	1961	The New Breed	Tommy Simms	70
28	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	51
29	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self - Co-Host	51
30	1963	The Fugitive	Gus	72
31	1963	The Danny Kaye Show	Self	63
32	1963	The Great Adventure	Daniel Waterhouse	0
33	1964	Daniel Boone	Luke	69
34	1964	Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.	Opie Taylor	71
35	1965	I Spy	Alan Loden	63
36	1965	The Big Valley	Tommy	61
37	1965	The F.B.I.	Jess Orkin	55
38	1966	The Monroes		57
39	1967	Judd for the Defense		75
40	1967	Gentle Ben	Jerry	63
41	1967	Gentle Ben	Jody Cutler	63
42	1968	Land of the Giants	Jodar	67
43	1968	Mayberry R.F.D.	Opie Taylor	57
44	1968	Lancer		47
45	1969	The Bold Ones: The New Doctors	Cory Merlino	40
46	1969	Love, American Style	Richie Cunningham	60
47	1970	The Headmaster		0
48	1971	The Smith Family	Bob Smith	60
49	1971	Great Performances	Self	54
50	1972	The Waltons		71
51	1972	MAS*H	Wendell	79
52	1973	The American Film Institute Salute to ...	Self	63
53	1974	Happy Days		77
54	1974	Happy Days	Richie Cunningham	77
55	1974	Dinah!	Self	65
56	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	69
57	1976	Donny & Marie	Self	65
58	1976	Laverne & Shirley		72
59	1976	The Captain and Tennille	Self	55
60	1976	Battle of the Network Stars		72
61	1980	The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang	Richie Cunningham	80
62	1989	The Simpsons	Ron Howard (voice)	80
63	1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		54
64	1993	Frasier	Stephen (voice)	77
65	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	74
66	1995	MADtv	Self	69
67	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
68	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
69	1997	The View	Self	45
70	1997	The View	Self - Guest	45
71	1998	From the Earth to the Moon	Ron Howard	82
72	1999	The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn	Self - Guest	42
73	1999	Where Are They Now?	Self	75
74	2002	Top Gear	Self	75
75	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self - Guest	55
76	2003	Real Time with Bill Maher	Self	60
77	2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self	58
78	2003	Arrested Development	Narrator	79
79	2004	Kulturplatz	Self	60
80	2005	The Colbert Report		68
81	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
82	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	48
83	2014	Off Camera with Sam Jones	Self	40
84	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self	58
85	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	54
86	2015	The Odd Couple	Stanley	59
87	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	65
88	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert		65
89	2016	Chelsea	Self	52
90	2016	This Is Us	Ron Howard (uncredited)	82
91	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show		63
92	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show	Self	63
93	2020	Reunited Apart	Self	55
94	2020	How To with John Wilson	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	82
95	2021	Only Murders in the Building	Ron Howard	85
96	2022	Light & Magic	Self - Producer, Actor, Writer	76
97	2023	100 Years of Warner Bros.	Self	77
98	2023	Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982	Self	70