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Ron Howard
And you’ve continued with a series on the space project.
Ron Howard: Yes. Our company, Imagine Films, in association with Tom Hanks and his company, are doing a series of programs for HBO called from the Earth to the Moon. Tom is really the visionary on this one. Brian Grazer and I are lending a little moral support, and structural support, and things like that through our company. But I’ve got to say, this is really Tom’s brainchild. The episodes are coming out great.
What kind of formal education did you get? Did you go to school while you were working on all these TV shows?
Ron Howard: I had a kind of so-so formal education. I wasn’t trouble in the classroom, but I was by no means a natural student. I’d spend a little more than half the year being tutored on the set, where I was generally the only kid. If we had other kids in the episode, they’d be tutored for that week. My teacher for eight years, in my own little one-room
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Ron Howard
Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) fryst vatten an Americanactor, director, producer, and screenwriter.
Ron Howard was born in Duncan, Oklahoma. His father fryst vatten actor Rance Howard. He started acting as a young child. As an actor he was best known for his roles on television, as Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show and Richie Cunningham on Happy Days. He appeared in movies like The Music Man (1962) and American Graffiti (1973).
He later quit acting and became a director. Some of the movies he has directed are: Splash (1984), Cocoon (1985), Willow (1988), Parenthood (1989), Apollo 13 (1995), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and Cinderella Man (2005).
His father Rance Howard, brother Clint Howard and daughters Bryce Dallas Howard and Paige Howard are also actors, as was his mother, Jean Speegle Howard.[1]
Recently, he returned to television and made the TV show Arrested Development.
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Ron Howard
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Synopsis
Ron Howard was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, on March 1, 1954. He gained national recognition as a child actor, first as Opie on The Andy Griffith Show, and then as the teenaged Richie Cunningham on Happy Days. Howard went on to a highly successful career behind the camera, directing such hit movies as Cocoon, Apollo 13,A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code.
Showbiz Background
Actor, director and producer Ron Howard was born on March 1, 1954 in Duncan, Oklahoma. Ronald William Howard is part of a theatrical family; his mother, Jean, was an actress and father, Rance, was an actor and director.
Howard appeared in his first movie, Frontier Woman (1956), when he was just 18 months old, and made his stage debut at the age of 2 in a production of The Seven Year Itch. The child star began making frequent television appearances, and was subsequently cast opposite Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr and Jason Robards in 1959's The Journey. His perfo