History Creator / RonHoward

* ''Film/NightShift'' (1982)

** Part of the reason Ron wanted to direct ''Film/NightShift'', a sex comedy about two guys who run a prostitution ring inside of a morgue, was to break away from the wholesome images of his TV characters [[Series/TheAndyGriffithShow Opie Taylor]] and [[Series/HappyDays Richie Cunningham]]. Unsurprisingly, when ''Night Shift'' producer Brian Grazer shopped the film around town, most studio bosses liked the premise, only to then become skeptical over letting [[PlayingAgainstType "the kid from 'Happy Days'"]] direct ''Night Shift''. [[labelnote:A]]Thankfully, Alan Ladd Jr., who then headed the Ladd Company at Warner Bros., was willing to take a chance on Ron Howard directing ''Night Shift'', possibly because Creator/GeorgeLucas (who had directed Howard in the film ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'') stepped in to vouch for Ron.[[/labelnote]][[labelnote:B]]Unsurprisingly, three months after ''Night Shift'' was released, Ron Howard would host ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' in which his [[https://youtu.be/_ShUU2q-ddo?si=Hm76dkJGmpKe5XVb monologue]] consisted of him parodying his wholesome image by drinking actual beer on TV and saying taboo words like "prophylactic", "jock itch", and "intercourse". Later in that same episode, when Ron Howard tells [[Creator/EddieMurphy Raheem Abdul Mohammed]] that he's married and has a [[Creator/BryceDallasHoward baby girl]], Raheem responds with [[https://snltranscripts.jt.org/82/82cfilm.phtml "Wow, man. I just can't picture little Opie Cunningham doin' it".]] [[/labelnote]]

* ''Film/TheMissing'' (2003)

The son of Creator/RanceHoward and older brother of Creator/ClintHoward, he is married to Cheryl Howard (née Alley), with whom he's had four children including Creator/BryceDallasHoward.

* Creator/DanBrown's Robert Langdon series

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* AssociatedComposer: Music/JamesHorner and Music/HansZimmer are these, having worked on several of his films between them.
* [[BioPic Biopic:]] ''Film/ABeautifulMind'', ''Film/CinderellaMan'' and ''Film/Rush2013''

* TheFilmOfTheBook: He has directed a number of them including ''Film/{{How the Grinch Stole Christmas|2000}}'', ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' series, ''Film/InTheHeartOfTheSea'' and ''Hillbilly Elegy''.

* ProductionPosse: Creator/TomHanks and Creator/ClintHoward (Ron's brother) often appear in his films, as did Howard's late father Creator/RanceHoward. Brian Grazer (with whom Howard runs Creator/ImagineEntertainment) is his main producer. Cinematography is usually handled by Salvatore Totino (7 films) or Donald Peterman (4 films), with Daniel Hanley (23 films) and Mike Hill (22 films) being his most frequent editors.

** Part of the reason Ron wanted to direct ''Film/NightShift'', a sex comedy about two guys who run a prostitution ring inside of a morgue, was to break away from the wholesome images of his TV characters [[Series/TheAndyGriffithShow Opie Taylor]] and [[Series/HappyDays Richie Cunningham]]. Unsurprisingly, when ''Night Shift'' producer Brian Grazer shopped the film around town, most studio bosses liked the premise, only to then become skeptical over letting [[PlayingAgainstType “the kid from ‘Happy Days’”]] direct ''Night Shift''.[[note]]Thankfully, Alan Ladd Jr., who then headed the Ladd Company at Warner Bros., was willing to take a chance on Ron Howard directing ''Night Shift'', possibly because Creator/GeorgeLucas (who had directed Howard in the film ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'') stepped in to vouch for Ron.[[/note]]

He is the son of Creator/RanceHoward, father of Creator/BryceDallasHoward and older brother of Creator/ClintHoward.

!!Some of the films he's directed include:

!!His acting roles include:

* ''Film/TheMusicMan'' (1962): Winthrop Paroo

So remember that Opie kid from ''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow''? Well, Ronald William "Ronny"/"Ron" Howard (born March 1, 1954 in Duncan, UsefulNotes/{{Oklahoma|USA}}) grew up to star in ''Series/HappyDays'' and discovered while being one of the biggest sitcom stars in the world that he liked directing. He's good at it, too, as his many awards show. And he was the narrator ''([[AdamWesting and himself!]])'' on ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''.

* ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' (2000)

* TheFilmOfTheBook: He has directed a number of them including ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', ''Literature/TheDaVinciCode'' series, ''Film/InTheHeartOfTheSea'' and ''Hillbilly Elegy''.

--->“It seemed just too perfect. Little Ronny Howard grows up to make films for Walt Disney studios. That bothered me. It seemed counterproductive.”

** When Ron Howard found out that Disney was going to greenlight his next film ''Film/{{Splash}}'', he initially balked at Disney’s involvement, not only due to fear of [[ExecutiveMeddling Disney censoring Daryl Hannah’s nude scenes]][[note]]which they eventually did on the film's Creator/DisneyPlus release[[/note]] (since at the time, Ron Howard didn’t have [[ProtectionFromEditors final cut]]), but also because the idea of making a movie for Disney was infantilizing to him, since he felt that it was inevitable that a wholesome guy like Ron Howard would work for a company known for making wholesome movies like “Disney”. [[note]] Ironically, Ron Howard had appeared in a few Disney projects back in the late 1960s and early 1970s: the Disneyland Record ''[[https://youtu.be/l_qRCqw8LZs?t=2m20s The Story and Song of The Haunted Mansion]]'' (in which a [[ChildrenVoicingChildren 15 year old Ron Howard voiced the teenage Mike]] who finds himself trapped inside Franchise/TheHauntedMansion alongside his girlfriend Karen); the made-for-TV Disney movies ''[[https://youtu.be/alHtFrKUMm0 A Boy Called Nuthin’]]'' and ''[[https://youtu.be/X_pBgsUV3AQ Smoke]]''(both of which aired on ''[[Series/WaltDisneyPresents The Wonderful World of Disney]]''); and ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Country The Wild Country]]'' (which got a theatrical release).[[/note]]

* ''Film/GrandTheftAuto'' (1977): Sam Freeman

He is the son of Creator/RanceHoward father of Creator/BryceDallasHoward and older brother of Creator/ClintHoward.