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Ron Howard
American filmmaker Ron Howard, 2009.
Ron Howard
American filmmaker and actor
Also known as: Ronald William Howard
Quick Facts
- Byname of:
- Ronald William Howard
- Awards And Honors:
- Academy Award (2002)
- Notable Works:
- “A Beautiful Mind”
- “Angels & Demons”
- “Apollo 13”
- “Backdraft”
- “Cinderella Man”
- “Cocoon”
- “Frost/Nixon”
- “Genius”
- “Grand Theft Auto”
- “Gung Ho”
- “Hillbilly Elegy”
- “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
- “In the Heart of the Sea”
- “Made in America”
- “Night Shift”
- “Parenthood”
- “Pavarotti”
- “Ransom”
- “Splash”
- “Beatles: Eight Days a Week—The Touring Years, The”
- “The Da Vinci Code”
- “The Dilemma”
- “The Paper”
- “Thirteen Lives”
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 on various television series, including Playhouse 90, General Electric Theatre, The Danny Thomas Show, The Fugitive, and Dr. Kildare, as well as in the film ...(100 of 734 words)