Ron Howard relives happy days
Ron Howard was born in Duncan on March 1, 1954. In December, TCM will relive his extraordinary career in the 90-minute special “Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film.”
Counting his uncredited appearance in the 1956 movie “Frontier Woman,” Howard has spent 52 years in the film industry. His first real role, however, came at age four when he was cast as E.G. Marshall’s son in 1959′s “The Journey.”
Film critic and documentarian Richard Schickel is producing the TCM special, which will trace Howard’s career from a first-person perspective.
The actor/director, who lived in Oklahoma for only a few months, will discuss each movie he has directed — from 1977′s low-budget “Grand Theft Auto” to blockbusters such as “Splash,” “Apollo 13″ and “A Beautiful Mind.”
Howard, who won an Oscar for “A Beautiful Mind,” will also talk about his career as a child star — he was Opie Taylor for eight years on “The Andy Griffith Show” and Winthrop Paroo in the 1962 movie “The Music Man.” He was 20 when he took the role of Richie Cunningham on “Happy Days,” which aired for 10 years on ABC.
Howard’s latest directorial effort is “Frost/Nixon” starring Frank Langella as President Nixon and Michael Sheen as famed interviewer David Frost. It will be released in selected theaters on Dec. 5.
–Penny TV
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