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- Caption: Ron Howard
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Birth Name
Ron Howard
Birth Date
03/01/1954
Birthplace
Duncan, Oklahoma
Credits
25 Movies, 16 TV appearances, 12 awards
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Family
Brother: Clint Howard
born in April 1959; has appeared in most of his brother's films; best known as the child lead of TV's "Gentle Ben" (CBS, 1967-69)
Daughter: Bryce Dallas Howard
born c. 1981
Daughter: Jocelyn Carlyle Howard
twin; born c. 1985
Daughter: Paige Carlyle Howard
twin; born c. 1985
Father: Rance Howard
has appeared in most of Howard's films
Mother: Jean Howard
died on September 2, 2000 at age 73
Son: Reed Howard
born c. 1987
Notes
"As a director, this film was definitely the biggest challenge I've ever faced. "Apollo 13" was daunting. "Backdraft" was tricky, and I also learned a lot on "Willow", but "The Grinch" had a visual trick in almost every shot. Still, I don't like to be too blatant with those tricks, and I don't like the photography and the stylistic choices to overtake and overpower the characters. ..." --Ron Howard on directing "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas" quoted in American Cinematographer, November 2000.
"Brian [Grazer]'s a much better producer than I am. ... Good producers need to roll their sleeves up in a way that I can be kind of timid about. The director in me doesn't want to step on another director's toes, but directors' toes need to a little stomping from time to time. Even mine. I depend on Brian for that with me." --Ron Howard quoted in Premiere, April 1999.
"Everybody wants their films to be appreciated and respected at every level," he says. "Of course, I hope 'A Beautiful Mind' is accepted in that way. I wish I'd been nominated and won for 'Apollo 13.' I'd be lying if I didn't say that. But I don't know what factors go into what is an impossible choice to begin with. It's never [comparing] apples to apples anyway--God knows what colors those choices." --Howard on the Oscars, quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Janaury 4, 2002.
"For a long time I was trying to display unexpected range. That was much more of an issue. But in the last four or five years, I kind of worked in all the genres I expect I ever will work in. There was a certain turning point." --Ron Howard to New York, December 17, 2001.
"For a long time, people thought of me as a TV actor dabbling in directing. Then they thought of me as a director who only did comedy ... Then I started making dramas, and people raised their eyebrows." --Howard quoted in New York Post, March 25, 1999.
"I learned to write in order to sign autographs at 5. People were asking me for my autograph on the first season of 'Andy Griffith' and my dad said, 'I guess you'll have to learn to sign your name. Printing won't work.'" --Ron Howard quoted by Stephen Schaefer in Boston Herald, March 26, 1999.
"I've always been involved in sort of pop entertainment. You live with a little bit of frustration that that kind of work is not taken as seriously as other kinds of work. I mean, there's great feedback, but yeah, sure, I was sort of legitimately categorized and types as the all-American guy." --Howard to Bernard Weinraub in The New York Times, November 12, 1996.
"I've always believed that I'd do my best work from age 50 to 65. I told that to my brother Clint about 20 years ago. He looked at me and said, 'That means you're in store for a lot of sh---y movies.'" --Howard quoted in Entertainment Weekly, April 1, 1994.
"Joh Huston directed until he dropped. That's what I wan to do." --Howard quoted in Premiere, February 2002
"My objective is to reach the point where no script written in this town has my name crossed off as a potential director." --Ron Howard quoted by Peter Bart in GQ, May 1999.
"Of course I'm vain, but in my day-to-day living in the East, I'm not encountering people in the business unless I specifically come to work. And I think there's something very liberating about that, being constantly reminded that even if what you're doing is important to you, it's not the be-all and end-all. When you're in L.A., it's the be-all and end-all." --Howard on living on the East Coast to New York, December 17, 2001.
"One reason that I became a director was because I felt sort of suffocated at one point in my late teens -- "Happy Days" was a number one show at the time, and it was a teenage show to boot, so there was a real pop side to the fan base and the way they would react. That was about as intense as that can be -- being uncomfortable to go out Christmas shopping or to Disneyland or to the movies. I was getting ready to have an adult life." --Howard to Premiere, April 1999.
"Part of my code of life became defined by not fulfilling those cliches for people, which later included not being thrown in jail or being written up as a child actor on the rocks. I consciously wanted to avoid those cliches." --Howard quoted in the Daily News, March 21, 1999.
"Well, I would love every review to be glowing and I would like to win every award I can win. But I think I'm treated pretty fairly. I think there are certain people who don't like my stuff. And you just have to understand that." --Howard quoted in Newsday, March 24, 1999.
Not to be confused with British actor Ronald Howard, the son of actor-director Leslie Howard.
Three of Howard's four children are named for the places they were conceived: Bryce Dallas in Dallas; Paige Carlyle and Jocelyn Carlyle at the Hotel Carlyle in New York City. --From Premiere, April 1991.
Milestones
(1992) Announced that he and Grazer were leaving Imagine for a joint venture at Universal Pictures
(1956) Appeared as a baby in "Frontier Woman", featuring his father Rance Howard
(1993) Bought out Imagine (with Grazer), making the company private again
(1984) Breakthrough feature as director, "Splash", featuring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah; scripted by Mandel and Ganz
(1974-1980) Cast as Richie Cunningham on the long-running ABC sitcom, "Happy Days"; was a regular on the series for six years; left to pursue career as a filmmaker but made occasional appearances; gradually written out of the show, which continued until 1984
(1980) Cast as a man who honors his brother's wishes by committing a mercy killing and then is tried for murder in the NBC movie "Act of Love"
(1976) Co-starred with John Wayne in the elegiac Western "The Shootist"
(2001) Directed Russell Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind", a fictionalized biopic of Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash who overcame schizophrenia; film received eight Academy Award nominations including two for Howard, Best Picture and Best Director; won four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director
(2006) Directed Tom Hanks in the film adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code"
(1995) Directed the based-on-fact drama about an aborted NASA mission to the moon, "Apollo 13"; starred Tom Hanks, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise and Kathleen Quinlan; film earned 9 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture but not Best Director; won the DGA Award
(1999) Directed the feature comedy "EDtv", starring Matthew McConaughey, a loose remake of a French-Canadian comedy-drama about a man who wins a contest and has his life broadcast 24 hours a day on television
(2003) Directed the psychological thriller "The Missing", starring Cate Blanchett as a frontier woman who teams up with her estranged father, played by Tommy Lee Jones, to rescue her abducted daughter
(1989) Enjoyed hit with the genial comedy "Parenthood"; Dianne Wiest received a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award nomination
(1988) Executive produced the TV sequel "Splash Too" (ABC)
(1971) Feature debut as director and co-writer at age 23 with "Grand Theft Auto"; also starred
(1987) First Imagine production, "Like Father Like Son"
(1959) First feature acting role at age four in "The Journey"
(1985) Founded Imagine Films Entertainment with Brian Grazer; served as co-CEO
(1988) Had box-office misfire with the fantasy "Willow"
(1974) Had dramatic role in the acclaimed TV production "The Migrants" (CBS)
(1962) Had featured role in the big screen adaptation of "The Music Man"
(1985) Helmed "Cocoon"; actor Don Ameche received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar
(1996) Helmed "Ransom", a remake of the 1956 film about a child kidnapping, starring Mel Gibson and Rene Russo
(1994) Helmed "The Paper", featuring an all-star cast including Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall and Marisa Tomei
(1982) Helmed his breakthrough feature, "Night Shift"; first collaborations with producer Brian Grazer, writers Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel and actor Michael Keaton; "Happy Days" co-star Henry Winkler also starred
(1991) Helmed the action thriller "Backdraft", about firefighters with a cast including Robert De Niro, Kurt Russell and Donald Sutherland
(2000) Helmed the live action version of "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas", starring Jim Carrey
(1965) Last film role for five years, "Village of the Giants"
(1976) Made uncredited cameo appearance in "The First Nudie Musical", starring Cindy Williams
(1981) Met Brian Grazer
(1985) Moved east with his family to Connecticut at his wife's urging
Played Bob Smith on the ABC comedy-drama, "The Smith Family", starring Henry Fonda and Janet Blair
(1963) Played Eddie in the feature "The Courtship of Eddie's Father"
(1980) Feature debut as executive producer, "Leo and Loree"; "Happy Days" co-star Don Most had title role of Leo
(1975) Played title role in the ABC adaptation of "Huckleberry Finn"; his parents and brother played supporting parts
(1960-1968) Portrayed Opie Taylor, the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor, on "The Andy Griffith Show" (CBS)
(2001) Provided the character voice of the animated figure Tom Colonic in the mixed media feature "Osmosis Jones"
Raised in Burbank, California
(2005) Re-teamed with Russell Crowe to direct "Cinderella Man," a true story of Depression-era fighter and folk hero Jim Braddock
(2000) Renewed Imagine's production deal with Universal through 2005
(1979) Reprised his role in the less successful sequel "More American Graffiti"
(1986) Reprised signature childhood role of Opie Taylor in the NBC reunion movie "Return to Mayberry", executive produced by Andy Griffith
(1970) Resumed movie acting career in "Smoke"
(1990) Returned to TV series as executive producer of "Parenthood", a short-lived NBC sitcom
Served as co-editor of his high school newspaper
(2000) Served as executive producer of the short-lived ABC drama "Wonderland", created by Peter Berg
(1998) Served as one of the producers of the Emmy-winning HBO series "From the Earth to the Moon"; Tom Hanks was driving force behind the project, serving as executive producer as well as director, screenwriter and co-star
(1956) Stage acting debut at 18 months old with parents in "The Seven Year Itch"; father directed production
(1973) Starred in George Lucas' ground-breaking teen film "American Graffiti"; Cindy Williams was also in the cast
(1958) TV acting debut, "Police Station"
(1978) TV directing and screenwriting debut, "Cotton Candy", an NBC teen comedy movie; co-written with brother Clint
(1980) TV producing debut, "Ron Howard's 'Skyward'", a TV-movie about a paraplegic teen who yearns to pilot her own plane with Bette Davis in featured role; also directed
(1959) TV series debut, playing various characters on the sitcom, "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" (CBS)
(1992) Teamed with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman on the sweeping period romance "Far and Away"; proved to be a box-office disappointment
(1986) Took Imagine Films public
(1997) Was an executive producer of the ABC sitcom "Hiller & Diller"
(1987) Was an executive producer on the short-lived CBS sitcom "Take Five"
(1999) With Grazer and Eddie Murphy, served as executive producer of the animated series "The PJs" (Fox, 1999-2000; The WB, 2000-2001)
(1998-2001) With Grazer, executive produced the highly-touted drama series "Felicity" (The WB)
(2002) With Grazer, was a producer of the comedy feature "Stealing Harvard"
(2001) With Grazer, was an executive producer of the ABC summer series "The Beast"
(1998-2002) With partner Brian Grazer, was an executive producer of the ABC sitcom "Sports Night" - Actor/Actress/Director: Ron Howard
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