Ron Howard

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Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954) is an American actor and director. He started acting as a young child, and was best known for his roles on TV as Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show and Richie Cunningham on Happy Days and in movies like The Music Man (1962) and American Graffiti (1973) . He later quit acting and became a director. Some of the films he directed are: Splash (1984), Cocoon (1985), Willow (1988), Apollo 13 (1995), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and the Cinderella Man (2005). His brother Clint Howard and daughter Bryce Dallas Howard are also actors. Recently, he returned to TV and made the TV show Arrested Development.