A showbiz veteran of over 40 years, Ron Howard experienced great success as a child actor in TV and film, a juvenile lead on the small screen, and a producer-director of successful Hollywood features in his maturity. As a filmmaker, he has proven capable of handling light comic material, special effects sagas, and transgeneric family dramas. The son of actors Rance and Jean Howard and older brother of character actor Clint, he made his first professional appearance at the age of 18 months on stage with his parents in Baltimore, Maryland.

As a child and later teen actor, the cute, redheaded