Ron Howard Biography
Ron Howard is an American film director, producer and actor. He came to be known as a young actor, appearing in a number of television shows, including an episode of The Twilight Zone. From 1960 until 1968, he was most known for his role as young Opie Taylor, the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor, in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show.
Ron Howard Age
Ron was born on 1st March 1964 in Duncan, Oklahoma.
Ron Howard Height
Ron stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches tall.
Ron Howard Family
Ron was born to Jean Speegle Howard, an actress, and Rance Howard , a director, writer, and actor. He is their eldest son, and has a younger brother Clint Howard.
Ron Howard Wife
Ron is married to Cheryl Alley, the two got married on June 7, 1975. Bryce Dallas Howard, twins Jocelyn Carlyle and Paige Howard, and son Reed Cross are their four children.
Ron Howard Career
Howard’s first credited film performance was in The Journey in 1959. He appeared in the CBS anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson’s episode “Child Lost,” in The Twilight Zone’s episode “Walking Distance,” in a few episodes of Dennis the Menace’s first season as Stewart, one of Dennis’s friends, and in several first- and second-season episodes of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
The Cheyenne Show’s Season 4, Episode 2 (1960) featured Howard as “Timmy” in “Counterfeit Gun.”Howard was cast in The Andy Griffith Show as Opie Taylor in 1960. For all eight seasons of the show, he was known as “Ronny Howard,” and he played the titular character’s son.
He played Winthrop Paroo, the lispy boy, in the 1962 film adaptation of The Music Man, which also starred Robert Preston and Shirley Jones. He also acted alongside Glenn Ford and Jones in the 1963 picture The Courtship of Eddie’s Father.
In 1965, he played Barry Stewart on The Eleventh Hour; in 1966, he played Henry Fonda’s son in the ABC series The Smith Family; in 1969, he played Jodah in “Land of the Giants”; in 1971–72, he played a boy whose father was shot on Daniel Boone; and in 1973, he played an underage Marine on M*A*S*H in the episode “Sometimes You Hear the Bullet.” He played a teenage tennis player in at least one episode of The Bold Ones in the 1970s.
He was cast as Richie Cunningham in the TV series Happy Days after appearing in an episode of the series Love, American Style titled “Love and the Television Set.” In contrast to Henry Winkler’s “greasier” Arthur “Fonzie”/”The Fonz” Fonzarelli, he played the lovable “buttoned-down” child beginning in 1974.
He and Winkler created on-screen and off-screen chemistry on the set of Happy Days. Howard departed Happy Days just before the start of the eighth season in 1980 to pursue a career as a film director, but he returned for guest appearances in later seasons.
He made his directorial debut with the 1977 low-budget comedy/action film Grand Theft Auto, based on a script he co-wrote with his father, Rance, before leaving Happy Days in 1980. After striking a deal with Roger Corman, Howard was given the opportunity to make a picture in exchange for playing alongside Christopher Norris in Eat My Dust! Between 1978 and 1982.
Howard directed several TV pictures for NBC, including the 1982 TV movie Skyward, starring Bette Davis. Night Shift, starring Michael Keaton, Shelley Long, and Howard’s Happy Days co-star Henry Winkler, had his major directorial break in 1982.
In 2013, he directed the sports drama Rush, which was inspired by the Hunt–Lauda rivalry between British James Hunt and Austrian Niki Lauda during the 1976 Formula One season. It starred Chris Hemsworth as Hunt, Daniel Brühl as Lauda, and Olivia Wilde as Suzy Miller and was written by Peter Morgan. The film had its world premiere at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, where it was well welcomed by critics.
Ron Howard Movies and Tv shows
- The Davinci Code
- Rush
- The Grinch
- Angels and Demons
- Willow
- A Beautiful Mind
- Happy days
- Andrew Griffith Show
- Arrested Development
- The Waltons
- The Simpsons
- Gentle Ben
Ron Howard Net worth
Ron has an estimated net worth of $ 200 million dollars.