ron howard

     

He was playing Opie on TV when he played Eddie in the 1963 film "The Courtship Of Eddie's Father"

Trivia about ron howard

  • In 1977 this "Happy Days" star directed his first feature, "Grand Theft Auto"
  • When this young co-star became difficult to work with on the set, his real-life father would spank him
  • Between TV stints as Andy Griffith's son & Tom Bosley's son, he played Henry Fonda's son on "The Smith Family"
  • "Apollo 13","Splash"
  • Before he directed Rene Russo in "Ransom", this "Happy Days" actor went to high school with her
  • Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel collaborated on this director's "Night Shift", "Splash" & "Parenthood"
  • "Grand Theft Auto","Cocoon","Splash"
  • This director cast his own mother as astronaut Jim Lovell's mother in "Apollo 13"
  • "Apollo 13"(1995)
  • "Frost/Nixon", "Parenthood"
  • This director spent "Happy Days" studying cinema at USC long before he won an Oscar in 2002 -- what "A Beautiful Mind"
  • He was TV's Opie when he co-starred with Johnny Cash in the 1961 thriller "Door-to-Door Maniac"
  • He was almost 20 when he started playing teenager Richie Cunningham on "Happy Days" in 1974
  • These days he's behind the camera directing films like "Angels and Demons" & "The Da Vinci Code"
  • In 1977 he directed his first film, "Grand Theft Auto", from a script he co-wrote with his father Rance
  • 1964:Acted on a Top-10 rated TV show;1984:Directed "Splash"
  • As a producer, he was smart enough to hire himself to direct "A Beautiful Mind"; imagine that!
  • "Arrested Development"(The producer)