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Ron Howard
Highest Rated: 100% Carlos (2023)
Lowest Rated: 12% The Chamber (1996)
Birthday: Mar 1, 1954
Birthplace: Duncan, Oklahoma, USA
Widely known as an American actor, writer, director and producer, Ron Howard's wide range of directorial efforts, which include Splash" (1984), "Apollo 13" (1995), "Cinderella Man" (2005), and "Frost/Nixon" (2008), made him one of the rare filmmakers who consistently produced celebrated movies that are both critically-acclaimed and crowd-pleasing hits. Born in Duncan, Oklahoma, Howard began first came to prominence as a child actor in the 1960s. For eight seasons he played Opie Taylor on "The Andy Griffith Show" (CBS, 1960-68), making him a recognizable face to the millions of viewers who watched the wholesome family comedy each week. Whereas most child actors putter out by the time they reach adulthood, Howard's acting career continued to blossom well into his 20s. In addition to starring in films like George Lucas's Oscar-nominated high school drama "American Graffiti" (1973), Howard was able to play an even bigger role on television when he was cast as the affable Richie Cunningham on the hit ABC comedy "Happy Days" (ABC, 1974-1984). After leaving "Happy Days" in 1980, Howard longed to be behind the camera directing movies. After directing the low budget film "Grand Theft Auto" in 1977, as well as a few other TV movies, Howard made his first big theatrical film in 1982 with "Night Shift." The film received mostly positive reviews, thus giving Howard the confidence he needed to continue making films for a living. Over the next two decades he would go on to make some of the most celebrated films of the 80s and 90s, including "Splash," "Cocoon" (1985), "Parenthood" (1989), "Backdraft" (1991), and "Apollo 13," the latter of which earned two Academy Awards. In 2002 Howard earned his first two Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for the biographical drama "A Beautiful Mind" (2001). He would later earn Oscar nods for Best Picture and Director for 2008's "Frost/Nixon." In addition to acting and film directing, Howard was also a noted TV producer. Of the various shows he produced throughout his career, the most notable was arguably the Emmy Award-winning comedy "Arrested Development" (Fox/Netflix, 2003- ), of which he also served as narrator. By 2019 Howard, 65, had been working in show business consistently for over half a century and showed no signs of slowing down. In addition to directing a documentary on the life of the Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti, called simply "Pavarotti" (2019), he also had several other film projects in development, including a planned television adaptation of his classic 1988 fantasy film "Willow."
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Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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100% |
|
Jim Henson Idea Man |
Director, Producer |
- | 2024 |
89% |
|
Frida | Executive Producer | - | 2024 |
46% |
|
Candy Cane Lane | Producer | - | 2023 |
100% |
|
Carlos | Executive Producer | $432.2K | 2023 |
100% |
|
The Slumber Party | Executive Producer | - | 2023 |
47% |
|
The Beanie Bubble | Producer | - | 2023 |
95% |
|
Judy Blume Forever |
Producer, Executive Producer |
- | 2023 |
100% |
|
Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming, with Dave Letterman | Executive Producer | - | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Shrinking of Treehorn | Director | - | 2023 |
100% |
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Personality Crisis: One Night Only | Executive Producer | - | 2022 |
98% |
|
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues | Executive Producer | - | 2022 |
88% |
|
Wedding Season | Executive Producer | - | 2022 |
85% |
|
Thirteen Lives |
Director, Producer |
- | 2022 |
83% |
|
Leave No Trace | Executive Producer | - | 2022 |
100% |
|
We Feed People |
Director, Producer |
- | 2022 |
94% |
|
Lucy and Desi | Executive Producer | - | 2022 |
91% |
|
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing |
Executive Producer, Producer |
- | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 'Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen | Self | - | 2022 |
90% |
|
Paper & Glue | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
96% |
|
Julia | Executive Producer | $399.7K | 2021 |
87% |
|
Tick, Tick... Boom! | Producer | - | 2021 |
No Score Yet |
|
Curious George: Cape Ahoy | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
90% |
|
Who Are You, Charlie Brown? | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
80% |
|
The Day Sports Stood Still | Executive Producer | - | 2021 |
24% |
|
Hillbilly Elegy |
Director, Producer |
- | 2020 |
No Score Yet |
|
Curious George: Go West, Go Wild | Executive Producer | - | 2020 |
93% |
|
Rebuilding Paradise |
Director, Producer |
- | 2020 |
94% |
|
Dads |
Self, Producer |
- | 2019 |
87% |
|
Pavarotti |
Director, Producer |
$4.6M | 2019 |
40% |
|
Backdraft 2 | Executive Producer | - | 2019 |
69% |
|
Solo: A Star Wars Story | Director | $213.8M | 2018 |
15% |
|
The Dark Tower | Producer | $50.7M | 2017 |
No Score Yet |
|
Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie | Self | - | 2016 |
23% |
|
Inferno |
Director, Producer |
$34.3M | 2016 |
96% |
|
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week -- The Touring Years |
Director, Producer |
$2.9M | 2016 |
93% |
|
Prophet's Prey | Executive Producer | $13.5K | 2015 |
43% |
|
In the Heart of the Sea |
Director, Producer |
$23.1M | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Love Sex & Kung Fu | Cinematographer | - | 2015 |
84% |
|
The Good Lie | Producer | $2.7M | 2014 |
97% |
|
No No: A Dockumentary | Unknown (Character) | - | 2014 |
53% |
|
Made in America |
Director, Producer |
- | 2013 |
89% |
|
Rush |
Director, Producer |
$26.9M | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Dream of Flying | Producer | - | 2013 |
38% |
|
Restless | Producer | $163.1K | 2011 |
44% |
|
Cowboys & Aliens | Producer | $100.2M | 2011 |
24% |
|
The Dilemma |
Director, Producer |
$48.4M | 2011 |
No Score Yet |
|
Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey | Producer | - | 2009 |
37% |
|
Angels & Demons |
Director, Producer |
$133.4M | 2009 |
93% |
|
Frost/Nixon |
Director, Producer |
$18.6M | 2008 |
62% |
|
Changeling | Producer | $35.7M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film | Unknown (Character) | - | 2008 |
25% |
|
The Da Vinci Code | Director | $217.5M | 2006 |
70% |
|
Curious George | Producer | $58.3M | 2006 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Curious George | Producer | - | 2006 |
80% |
|
Cinderella Man | Director | $61.6M | 2005 |
83% |
|
Inside Deep Throat | Producer | $653.6K | 2005 |
88% |
|
Tell Them Who You Are | Self | $38.6K | 2004 |
29% |
|
The Alamo | Producer | $22.4M | 2004 |
58% |
|
The Missing |
Director, Producer |
$26.9M | 2003 |
74% |
|
A Beautiful Mind |
Director, Producer |
$170.7M | 2001 |
55% |
|
Osmosis Jones | Tom Colonic (Voice) | $13.6M | 2001 |
60% |
|
The Independent | Self | $238.4K | 2000 |
49% |
|
How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Director | $260.4M | 2000 |
82% |
|
Beyond the Mat | Producer | $2.0M | 1999 |
63% |
|
EDtv |
Director, Producer |
$22.4M | 1999 |
36% |
|
Inventing the Abbotts | Producer | $5.9M | 1997 |
No Score Yet |
|
Frank Capra's American Dream | Narrator | - | 1997 |
74% |
|
Ransom | Director | $136.5M | 1996 |
12% |
|
The Chamber | Producer | $14.4M | 1996 |
96% |
|
Apollo 13 | Director | $173.8M | 1995 |
89% |
|
The Paper | Director | $36.6M | 1994 |
50% |
|
Far and Away |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$58.2M | 1992 |
73% |
|
Backdraft | Director | $75.7M | 1991 |
92% |
|
Parenthood | Director | $99.6M | 1989 |
13% |
|
Vibes | Executive Producer | $1.7M | 1988 |
53% |
|
Willow | Director | $55.6M | 1988 |
50% |
|
No Man's Land | Executive Producer | $1.1M | 1987 |
33% |
|
Gung Ho | Director | $36.4M | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
|
Return to Mayberry | Opie Taylor (Character) | - | 1986 |
82% |
|
Cocoon | Director | $75.9M | 1985 |
91% |
|
Splash | Director | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | When Your Lover Leaves | Producer | - | 1983 |
93% |
|
Night Shift | Director | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet |
|
Bitter Harvest | Ned De Vries (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fire on the Mountain | Lee Mackie (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Leo and Loree | Executive Producer | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
|
Act of Love | Leon Cybulkowski (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tut and Tuttle | Director | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Skyward | Director | - | 1980 |
20% |
|
More American Graffiti | Steve Bolander (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Through the Magic Pyramid | Director | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cotton Candy | Director | - | 1978 |
27% |
|
Grand Theft Auto |
Sam Freeman (Character), Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1977 |
81% |
|
The Shootist | Gillom Rogers (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
|
Eat My Dust! | Hoover Niebold (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
|
Huckleberry Finn | Huckleberry Finn (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Migrants | Lyle Barlow (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Spikes Gang | Les (Character) | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Locusts | Donny Fletcher (Character) | - | 1974 |
95% |
|
American Graffiti | Steve Bolander (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet |
|
Happy Mother's Day, Love George | Johnny (Character) | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wild Country | Virgil Tanner (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Smoke | Chris (Character) | - | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Boy Called Nuthin' | Richie "Nuthin" Caldwell (Character) | - | 1968 |
17% |
|
Village of the Giants | Genius (Character) | - | 1965 |
67% |
|
The Courtship of Eddie's Father | Eddie Corbett (Character) | - | 1963 |
94% |
|
The Music Man | Winthrop Paroo (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet |
|
Five Minutes to Live | Bobby Wilson (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Journey | Billy Rhinelander (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Frontier Woman | Crying Child (Character) | - | 1956 |
TV
Credit | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tiny Chef | Executive Producer | 2022-2024 |
No Score Yet | 62% | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Guest | 2021-2022 2024 |
No Score Yet | 6% | The View | Guest | 2015 2021 2024 |
No Score Yet | 44% | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2015 2024 |
100% | 52% | The Dynasty: New England Patriots | Executive Producer | 2024 |
No Score Yet | 80% | Bossy Bear | Executive Producer | 2023-2024 |
71% | 63% | Genius |
Executive Producer, Director |
2017-2018 2021 2024 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Choir | Executive Producer | 2024 |
83% | 75% | The Super Models | Executive Producer | 2023 |
No Score Yet | 100% | The Andy Griffith Show | Opie Taylor (Character) | 1960-1968 2023 |
84% | 65% | Willow | Executive Producer | 2022-2023 |
No Score Yet | 49% | The Late Show With Stephen Colbert | Guest | 2018 2022 |
100% | 93% | Light & Magic | Executive Producer | 2022 |
86% | 36% | Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies & the Internet | Executive Producer | 2022 |
87% | 82% | Under the Banner of Heaven | Executive Producer | 2022 |
No Score Yet | 24% | The Drew Barrymore Show | Guest | 2021-2022 |
76% | 52% | Crime Scene | Executive Producer | 2021 |
60% | 51% | Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol | Executive Producer | 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Graham Norton Show | Guest | 2015 2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rachael Ray | Guest | 2021 |
No Score Yet | 61% | Late Night With Seth Meyers | Guest | 2021 |
83% | No Score Yet | Gossip | Executive Producer | 2021 |
No Score Yet | 94% | The Astronauts | Executive Producer | 2020-2021 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | On Pointe | Executive Producer | 2020 |
88% | 40% | 68 Whiskey | Executive Producer | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Talk | Guest | 2015 2017 2019 |
75% | 85% | Arrested Development |
Ron Howard / Self, Executive Producer |
2003-2006 2013 2018-2019 |
No Score Yet | 58% | Mars | Executive Producer | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 20/20 | Guest | 2018 |
94% | 81% | This Is Us | Himself (Guest Star) | 2017 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Breakthrough |
Executive Producer, Director, Narrator |
2015 2017 |
No Score Yet | 63% | The Odd Couple | Unknown (Guest Star) | 2016 |
41% | 61% | Chelsea | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Conan | Guest | 2015-2016 |
No Score Yet | 19% | The Late Late Show With James Corden | Guest | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen | Guest | 2015 |
88% | 95% | Parenthood | Executive Producer | 2010-2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Larry King Now | Guest | 2013 |
No Score Yet | 66% | Top Gear | Guest | 2013 |
38% | No Score Yet | The Great Escape | Executive Producer | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Real Story | Guest | 2012 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Jimmy Fallon | Guest | 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Daily Show | Guest | 1999 2008 2011 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Colbert Report | Guest | 2009 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Late Night With Conan O'Brien | Guest | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 36% | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Guest | 2009 |
No Score Yet | 71% | Felicity | Executive Producer | 1998-2002 |
30% | 75% | The Beast | Executive Producer | 2001 |
90% | 92% | Sports Night | Executive Producer | 1998-2000 |
93% | No Score Yet | Wonderland | Executive Producer | 2000 |
85% | 76% | The Simpsons | Himself (Guest Voice) | 1998-1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside the Actors Studio | Guest | 1999 |
95% | 94% | Frasier | Stephen (Guest Voice) | 1999 |
No Score Yet | 80% | From the Earth to the Moon | Producer | 1998 |
23% | No Score Yet | Hiller and Diller | Executive Producer | 1997-1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Parenthood | Executive Producer | 1990-1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Happy Days | Richie Cunningham (Character) | 1974-1980 1982-1984 |
No Score Yet | 58% | Saturday Night Live | Host | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang | Richie Cunningham (Voice) | 1980-1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Laverne & Shirley | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976-1977 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Waltons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1974 |
No Score Yet | 87% | M*A*S*H | Wendell (Guest Star) | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bonanza | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lassie | Gary (Guest Star) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Walt Disney's Disneyland | Chris (Character) | 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gunsmoke | Jamie Barker (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gentle Ben | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Daniel Boone | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lancer | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Danny Kaye Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. | Opie Taylor (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Valley | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Gus (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dr. Kildare | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Route 66 | Chet Duncan (Guest Star) | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dobie Gillis | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1959-1960 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Wilcox Boy (Character) | 1959 |