Ron Howard filmography

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Ron Howard is an American director, producer, writer, and former actor. He began as Opie on The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968) and later played Richie Cunningham on Happy Days (1974–1980). He appeared in films such as The Music Man (1962), American Graffiti (1973), and The Shootist (1976) before retiring from acting in 1980. He then moved behind the camera and directed comedies like Night Shift (1982), Splash (1984), and Cocoon (1985), the fantasy Willow (1988), and the thrillers Backdraft (1991) and The Paper (1994). He expanded to dramas with Apollo 13 (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Cinderella Man (2005), Frost/Nixon (2008), Rush (2013), and In the Heart of the Sea (2015). Howard also directed How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) and the Robert Langdon films The Da Vinci Code (2006), Angels & Demons (2009), and Inferno (2016), as well as Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). His documentaries include The Beatles: Eight Days a Week (2016) and Pavarotti (2019).