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Ron Howard The Andy Griffith Show Andy Griffith and Ron Howard in The Andy Griffith Show Ron Howard, Lauren Bacall, and John Wayne stand in a dimly lit room during a scene from the film The Shootist. Howard faces Wayne while Bacall stands between them. Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Don Most, and Anson Williams gather around a table in a publicity still from Happy Days. Director Ron Howard sits beside a large film camera on the set of The Da Vinci Code, wearing a beige shirt and cap, with crew and equipment visible in the background. Actor Michael Sheen, in a pinstripe suit, talks with director Ron Howard, wearing a baseball cap and headphones, on the set of the film Frost/Nixon. Ron Howard in American Graffiti Taylor Momsen as Cindy Lou Who and Jim Carrey as the Grinch face each other in a scene from How the Grinch Stole Christmas, with Cindy in a red coat and the Grinch in green fur. Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connelly in A Beautiful Mind
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Andy Griffith (left) and Ron Howard in the television series "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960-1968). (comedy)
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Ron Howard American filmmaker Ron Howard, 2009.

Ron Howard

American filmmaker and actor
Also known as: Ronald William Howard
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Ron Howard (born March 1, 1954, Duncan, Oklahoma, U.S.) is an American filmmaker who first achieved fame as a child actor and later became a respected director. Howard’s parents were in show business, and he made his first screen appearance, in Frontier Woman (1955), when he was 18 months old. His first onstage appearance came at age two in a summer-stock production of The Seven Year Itch, and, as Ronny Howard, he soon was appearing...

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