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Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
March 1, 1954
Place of Birth
Duncan, Oklahoma, USA
Also Known As
- Ronny Howard
- Ronald William Howard
- Ronnie Howard
- Ronald William "Ron" Howard
- ران هاوارد
Ron Howard
3.5 Popularity
Biography
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.
Known For
7.6
Ron Howard
The Studio
2025
0.0
Self
Enterprise or Love: The Story of Far and Away
2024
8.1
Self - Filmmaker
Music by John Williams
2024
6.8
Self
Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982
2023
7.7
Self
100 Years of Warner Bros.
2023
5.5
Self (archive footage)
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2023
0.0
Self
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
2023
4.1
Self - Director, Willow, 1988 / Executive Producer, Willow, 2022
Willow: Behind the Magic
2023
5.0
Self
'Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen
2022
7.2
Self
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
2022
Credits
The Studio
as Ron Howard
2025
7.6
Enterprise or Love: The Story of Far and Away
as Self
2024
0.0
Music by John Williams
as Self - Filmmaker
2024
8.1
Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982
as Self
2023
6.8
100 Years of Warner Bros.
as Self
2023
7.7
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
as Self (archive footage)
2023
5.5
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
as Self
2023
0.0
Willow: Behind the Magic
as Self - Director, Willow, 1988 / Executive Producer, Willow, 2022
2023
4.1
'Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen
as Self
2022
5.0
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
as Self
2022
7.2
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
as Self
2022
7.5
LIGHT & MAGIC
as Self - Academy Award Winning Filmmaker
2022
7.7
LIGHT & MAGIC
as Self
2022
7.7
LIGHT & MAGIC
as Self - Director, Cocoon
2022
7.7
LIGHT & MAGIC
as Self - Director, Willow
2022
7.7
Only Murders in the Building
as Ron Howard
2021
8.5
Fuck Coin
as Self
2021
0.0
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
as Self
2021
6.0
How To with John Wilson
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2020
8.1
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
as Self
2020
7.7
Reunited Apart
as Self
2020
5.5
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
as Wilcox Boy (archive footage)
2019
10.0
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
Dads
as Self
2019
6.9
Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10
as Self
2019
6.4
Kasdan on Kasdan
as Self
2018
0.0
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
as Self
2017
5.4
Tom Hanks: A League of His Own
as Self
2016
8.0
This Is Us
as Ron Howard (uncredited)
2016
8.2
Chelsea
as Self
2016
5.1
Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie
as Himself
2016
5.4
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
6.2
Gravity: Looking to the Stars - The Evolution of Space Films
as Self
2015
0.0
The Odd Couple
as Stanley
2015
5.8
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self
2014
4.0
The Arrested Development Documentary Project
as Self
2013
5.7
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
as Self
2013
6.1
From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking
as Self - Director
2013
3.7
Radioman
as Self
2012
5.7
Corman's World
as Self - Filmmaker
2011
7.1
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
as Richie Cunningham (archive footage)
2011
0.0
Sheldon Leonard's Wonderful Life
as Self
2011
10.0
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible
as Self
2010
6.7
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
as Self
2010
6.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film
as Self
2008
0.0
Cannes: All Access
as Self
2007
3.8
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
The Colbert Report
2005
6.9
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
as Self
2005
5.0
Tell Them Who You Are
as Self
2004
5.9
Kulturplatz
as Self
2004
6.0
Making a 'Splash'
as Self - Director
2004
4.6
Weezer: Video Capture Device - Treasures from the Vault 1991-2002
as Richie Cunningham ("Buddy Holly") (archive footage)
2004
9.0
Arrested Development
as Narrator
2003
7.9
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
2003
5.6
Real Time with Bill Maher
as Self
2003
6.0
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
2003
5.5
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
as Self
2002
6.0
Top Gear
as Self
2002
7.5
Inside a Beautiful Mind
as Self
2002
5.5
A Beautiful Mind
as Man at Governor's Ball (uncredited)
2001
7.9
Osmosis Jones
as Tom Colonic (voice)
2001
6.5
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
7.0
The Independent
as Ron Howard
2000
5.4
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
as Self
2000
6.8
Welcome to Hollywood
as Ron Howard
2000
3.8
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
as Self
1999
7.9
Where Are They Now?
as Self
1999
7.5
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
as Self - Guest
1999
4.6
🎬
Television: The First Fifty Years
as Self / Opie Taylor / Ritchie Cunningham (archive footage)
1999
0.0
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
as Self
1998
7.8
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
The View
as Self - Guest
1997
4.3
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
as Self
1997
0.0
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
as Self
1997
0.0
Frank Capra's American Dream
as Self
1997
6.3
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
as Self
1996
5.8
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
as Herbert Biberman
1996
0.0
MADtv
as Self
1995
7.0
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Frasier
as Stephen (voice)
1993
7.7
Hollywood on Hollywood
as Host
1993
0.0
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
as Self
1992
8.0
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
5.4
The Simpsons
as Ron Howard (voice)
1989
8.0
First Works
as Self
1989
0.0
Channel 99
1988
0.0
Willow: The Making of an Adventure
as Self - Director
1988
6.8
Return to Mayberry
as Opie Taylor
1986
6.2
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
as Self (archive footage)
1985
0.0
Night Shift
as Annoying Sax Player (uncredited)
1982
6.0
Fire on the Mountain
as Lee Mackie
1981
7.0
Bitter Harvest
as Ned De Vries
1981
1.0
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
as Richie Cunningham
1980
8.0
Act of Love
as Leon Cybulkowski
1980
5.0
More American Graffiti
as Steve Bolander
1979
5.2
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
as Richie Cunningham (archive footage)
1979
0.0
🎬
Sitcom: The Adventures of Garry Marshall
as Self
1979
0.0
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
as Self - Host
1978
0.0
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
as Self
1978
7.4
Huckleberry Finn
as Huckleberry Finn
1978
6.0
Grand Theft Auto
as Sam Freeman
1977
5.2
I'm a Fool
as Andy
1977
4.0
A Special: Olivia Newton-John
1976
7.0
Battle of the Network Stars
1976
6.0
The Captain and Tennille
as Self
1976
5.5
The Shootist
as Gillom Rogers
1976
7.1
Eat My Dust
as Hoover Niebold
1976
5.6
Laverne & Shirley
1976
7.2
Donny & Marie
as Self
1976
6.7
The First Nudie Musical
as Auditioning Actor
1976
4.8
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1975
7.0
Saturday Night Live
as Contestant #2 (uncredited)
1975
7.0
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
Locusts
as Donny Fletcher
1974
4.8
The Spikes Gang
as Les
1974
6.6
The Migrants
as Lyle Barlow
1974
5.7
Happy Days
as Richie Cunningham
1974
7.6
Happy Days
1974
7.6
Happy Mother's Day, Love George
as Johnny
1973
6.0
American Graffiti
as Steve Bolander
1973
7.0
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
M*A*S*H
as Wendell
1972
7.9
The Waltons
1972
7.2
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.8
The Smith Family
as Bob Smith
1971
6.0
The Wild Country
as Virgil Tanner
1970
6.0
The Headmaster
1970
0.0
Smoke
as Chris (as Ronny Howard)
1970
0.0
Love, American Style
as Richie Cunningham
1969
6.1
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
as Cory Merlino
1969
4.0
Lancer
1968
4.7
Mayberry R.F.D.
as Opie Taylor
1968
5.7
Land of the Giants
as Jodar
1968
6.7
A Boy Called Nuthin’
as Richie 'Nuthin'' Caldwell
1967
5.0
Gentle Ben
as Jerry
1967
6.6
Gentle Ben
as Jody Cutler
1967
6.6
Judd for the Defense
1967
7.5
The Monroes
1966
5.7
Village of the Giants
as Genius
1965
3.5
The F.B.I.
as Jess Orkin
1965
5.4
The Big Valley
as Tommy
1965
6.1
I Spy
as Alan Loden
1965
6.5
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
as Opie Taylor
1964
7.0
Daniel Boone
as Luke
1964
7.0
The Great Adventure
as Daniel Waterhouse
1963
0.0
The Danny Kaye Show
as Self
1963
6.3
The Fugitive
as Gus
1963
7.2
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
as Eddie Corbett
1963
5.9
The Music Man
as Winthrop Paroo
1962
7.1
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self - Co-Host
1961
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Five Minutes to Live
as Bobby Wilson
1961
5.4
The New Breed
as Tommy Simms
1961
7.0
Dr. Kildare
as Jerry Prentice
1961
5.5
Route 66
1960
6.3
The Andy Griffith Show
as Opie Taylor
1960
7.6
Pete and Gladys
1960
6.0
Dennis the Menace
1959
6.5
Dennis the Menace
as Stewart
1959
6.5
Five Fingers
1959
0.0
The Twilight Zone
as Wilcox Boy
1959
8.5
Johnny Ringo
as Ricky Parrott
1959
5.7
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959
6.0
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
as Little Boy Eating Candy Bar
1959
6.0
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
as Little Boy with Ray Gun
1959
6.0
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
as Wim
1959
6.3
Bonanza
as Ted Hoag
1959
7.5
The Journey
as Billy Rhinelander
1959
6.2
Gunsmoke
as Jamie
1955
6.6
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Chris
1954
7.8
Lassie
1954
6.1
The Danny Thomas Show
as Opie Taylor
1953
6.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
General Electric Theater
as Barnaby Baxter
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Randy
1953
6.4
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Accepting Award for Best Motion Picture Drama / Nominee
1944
7.2