Ron Howard
Directing
- Born:
- 1954-03-01
- Place of birth:
- Duncan, Oklahoma, USA
Biography
Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American filmmaker and actor. He started his career as a child actor before transitioning to directing films. Over his six-decade career, he has received multiple accolades, including two Academy Awards, seven Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Grammy Awards, as well as nominations for seven British Academy Film Awards. He was also awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2003 and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2013. Howard has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions in film and television. Howard first came to prominence as a child, acting in several television series before gaining 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. Howard was cast in one of the lead roles in the coming-of-age film American Graffiti (1973), and became a household name for playing Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days(1974–1980). He starred in the films The Spikes Gang (1974), The Shootist (1976), and Grand Theft Auto (1977), the latter being his directorial film debut. In 1980, Howard left Happy Days to focus on directing, producing, and sometimes writing a variety of films and television series. His films included the comedies Night Shift (1982), Splash (1984), and Cocoon (1985), as well as the fantasy Willow(1988), the thriller Backdraft (1991), and the newspaper comedy-drama film The Paper (1994). Howard went on to win the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Picture for A Beautiful Mind (2001) and was nominated again for the same awards for the historical drama Frost/Nixon (2008). Howard has directed historical dramas such as Apollo 13 (1995), Cinderella Man (2005), Rush(2013), In the Heart of the Sea (2015), and Thirteen Lives (2022), the children's fantasy film How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), the mystery-thriller series Robert Langdon (2006–2016), the comedy The Dilemma (2011), and the space drama Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). He also directed numerous documentaries such as The Beatles: Eight Days a Week (2016), Pavarotti (2019), and We Feed People (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ron Howard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Marty, Life Is Short
John Candy: I Like Me
The Studio
Enterprise or Love: The Story of Far and Away
Music by John Williams
Greatest Geek Year Ever! 1982
100 Years of Warner Bros.
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
Willow: Behind the Magic
'Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
LIGHT & MAGIC
Only Murders in the Building
Fuck Coin
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
How To with John Wilson
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
Reunited Apart
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Dads
Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10
Kasdan on Kasdan
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
Tom Hanks: A League of His Own
This Is Us
Chelsea
Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Odd Couple
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Off Camera with Sam Jones
The Arrested Development Documentary Project
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
Radioman
Corman's World
The Death and Return of Superman
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
Sheldon Leonard's Wonderful Life
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film
Cannes: All Access
The Graham Norton Show
The Colbert Report
Tell Them Who You Are
Kulturplatz
Making a 'Splash'
Weezer: Video Capture Device - Treasures from the Vault 1991-2002
Arrested Development
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Real Time with Bill Maher
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Top Gear
Inside a Beautiful Mind
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
A Beautiful Mind
Osmosis Jones
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking
The Independent
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
Welcome to Hollywood
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
Where Are They Now?
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Television: The First Fifty Years
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
The View
Frank Capra's American Dream
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
E! True Hollywood Story
The Daily Show
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
MADtv
Sci-Fi Channel: The Making of Apollo 13
Inside the Actors Studio
Frasier
Hollywood on Hollywood
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Horror Hall of Fame II
The Simpsons
First Works
Channel 99
Willow: The Making of an Adventure
Return to Mayberry
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
Night Shift
Fire on the Mountain
Bitter Harvest
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
Act of Love
More American Graffiti
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Sitcom: The Adventures of Garry Marshall
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Huckleberry Finn
The South Bank Show
Grand Theft Auto
I'm a Fool
A Special: Olivia Newton-John
Battle of the Network Stars
The Captain and Tennille
The Shootist
Bob Hope's Bicentennial Star-Spangled Spectacular
Eat My Dust
Laverne & Shirley
Donny & Marie
The First Nudie Musical
Saturday Night Live
People's Choice Awards
Dinah!
Locusts
The Spikes Gang
The Migrants
Happy Days
Happy Mother's Day, Love George
American Graffiti
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
M*A*S*H
The Waltons
Great Performances
The Smith Family
The Wild Country
The Headmaster
Smoke
Love, American Style
The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
Lancer
Mayberry R.F.D.
Land of the Giants
A Boy Called Nuthin’
Gentle Ben
Judd, for the Defense
The Monroes
Village of the Giants
The F.B.I.
I Spy
The Big Valley
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Daniel Boone
The Great Adventure
The Danny Kaye Show
The Fugitive
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
The Music Man
The Mike Douglas Show
Five Minutes to Live
The New Breed
Dr. Kildare
Route 66
The Andy Griffith Show
Pete and Gladys
Dennis the Menace
Five Fingers
Johnny Ringo
The Twilight Zone
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
The DuPont Show with June Allyson
Bonanza
The Journey
Gunsmoke
The Wonderful World of Disney
Lassie
The Danny Thomas Show
The Oscars
General Electric Theater
The Red Skelton Show
The Bob Hope Show
Golden Globe Awards