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NAME:	Ron Howard
PROFILE:	Name: Ron Howard Birth Name: Ronald William Howard Height: 5' 9" Sex: M Nationality: American Birth Date: March 1, 1954 Birth Place: Duncan, Oklahoma, USA Profession: actor, director, producer, writer Education: Burroughs High School, Burbank, California University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Husband/Wife: Cheryl Alley (actress; married on June 7, 1975) Father: Rance Howard (actor; born on December 3, 1928) Mother: Jean Speegle Howard (actress; born on January 31, 1927; died on September 2, 2000) Brother: Clint Howard (actor, born on April 20, 1959) Son: Reed (born in 1987) Daughter: Jocelyn Carlyle (twin, born in 1985), Paige Carlyle (twin, born in 1985), Bryce Dallas (born in 1981) Claim to fame: played Richie Cunningham on the long-running ABC sitcom Happy Days (1974-80) Contact: Click here
GOSSIP:	Accepting his Best Director Oscar for BEAUTIFUL MIND, Howard sincerely admitted, “I’m not a good enough actor anymore to be able to stand up here and make you believe that I haven’t imagined this moment in my mind over the years and played it out over a thousand times.” He then launched into a genuine, pat tribute to his mother, who predicted his win before her death 18 months before the Oscars. “She also made this prediction for every movie I’ve directed since 1983.” His daughter, Bryce Howard, 21, will likely replace Nicole Kidman in Danish director Lars von Trier's next two films that make up the trilogy he started with DOGVILLE. (December 4, 2003) Howard's film THE MISSING was picked as one of about 20 films that will compete for the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear awards in February. (December 2, 2003) Selects the lonely canyons and remote ranches of New Mexico as the perfect background for his suspense film THE MISSING.(December 1, 2003) Got National Medal of Arts from President George W Bush and the first lady on Wednesday -- Established by Congress in 1984, the National Medal of Arts is handed out every year by the National Endowment for the Arts to those who have made significant contributions to American culture. (November 14, 2003) Was one of the most powerful celebrity according to 2003 Forbes Top 100 Celebrity List (#48) Howard has offered a day on the set of his new movie to the highest bidder, one of hundreds of items on the block at the annual Greenwich High School PTA fund-raising auction Friday -- The winning bidder will be invited to the New Mexico set of THE MISSING, starring Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett. (March 8, 2003) Following tradition, Ron Howard cast his brother Clint in BACKDRAFT (1991). Clint plays Ricco the pathologist. Acted with Kathleen Quinlan in one scene of AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973), and 22 years later directed her in APOLLO 13. George Lucas produced while Howard directed WILLOW (1988). In AMERICAN GRAFFITI, Lucas directed and Howard starred. One morning, director Howard came in at 3:30 to put on the Grinch suit with full make-up and directed the entire day with the suit on (HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (2000)). HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS (2000): When the Grinch is pretending to be a director, he is imitating Howard. FAR AND AWAY (1992): Howard wasn't happy with Nicole Kidman's facial reaction during the shooting of the scene where her character lifts the bowl covering Joseph's (her husband Tom Cruise's) crotch. Without telling Kidman, he asked Cruise to remove his underwear. Howard got the reaction he wanted, and it appears in the film. When he was six, he won his first big acting role as Andy Griffith's son, Opie Taylor, in THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW. Received a video camera as a birthday present from the cast of the Andy Griffith show MORE RON HOWARD TRIVIA
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