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13 unusual facts about Ron Howard


Al Reinert

He co-wrote the screenplays for the Ron Howard film Apollo 13 and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, but is best known for directing and producing For All Mankind, an Award-winning documentary about NASA's Apollo program.

Amelia Campbell

In 1992 she played roles in Single White Female, and Lorenzo's Oil She appeared in Ron Howard's film The Paper in 1994, where she played a teenage cub photographer named Robin.

Chicago Fire Department

The Chicago Fire Department cooperated with film director Ron Howard on making the 1991 film Backdraft, starring Kurt Russell, William Baldwin and Robert De Niro.

For the Working Class Man

Journey's Jonathan Cain contributed, produced and performed on two tracks, "Working Class Man" (Which has since become Barnes' signature song as a solo artist after being featured in the Ron Howard film Gung Ho) and "American Heartbeat", with Steven Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band co-writing "Ride the Night Away" and Chas Sanford penning "I'd Die to be with You Tonight".

Gary Graver

Besides his work with Welles, Graver also worked for other notable Hollywood directors including Roger Corman, Fred Olen Ray and Ron Howard.

John G. Thomas

At the USC School of Cinematic Arts, Thomas struggled alongside other to-be-famous film students like George Lucas, Ron Howard, and John Carpenter.

La Malinche

The screenplay was optioned by Ron Howard and Imagine Films and is currently under development at Paramount Pictures.

Margaret Nagle

In 2010, Nagle was selected by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer to be a member of the first Imagine/Reliance Writers Lab, a group of screenwriters paid to generate scripts.

Mark Barrowcliffe

Ron Howard has secured the film rights for Barrowcliffe's novel Girlfriend 44, and Infidelity for First-Time Fathers is in development with 2929 Entertainment.

Piotr Sobociński

His career was hitting a peak in the mid-1990s when he was asked by Ron Howard to work on the film Ransom starring Mel Gibson and Rene Russo.

Scenes from the Southside

Two other notable tracks on the record were "The Show Goes On", which was featured in Ron Howard's 1991 film Backdraft, and "Jacob's Ladder", which was written by Bruce and John Hornsby, but is most well known as being a number-one hit for Huey Lewis and the News in March 1987.

The Brave Cowboy

(The second Abbey adaptation was Fire on the Mountain, which was a made-for-TV movie that starred Ron Howard and Buddy Ebsen).

Thomas Scoville

Two major works render an insider's perspective on life in technology startups: The satirical Silicon Valley Tarot published in 1998 and Silicon Follies, an online serial novel running on Salon.com in 1999, eventually finding its way to hardcover publication by Pocket Books and a television pilot by Ron Howard's Imagine Television.


Arputha Theevu

Albhutha Dweepu was released in 2005 and the remake rights were sold almost immediately to Hollywood director Ron Howard who was in India at that time.The film stars 300 dwarfs, and all 300 are to enact the same role in Hollywood version of the movie with Leonardo DiCaprio.

Chinatown, Chicago

Chicago Fire Department Engine 8 Company firehouse, firehouse used in the 1991 Ron Howard film Backdraft

Donna Butterworth

Donna Butterworth (born February 23, 1956) is an American motion picture performer who acted in The Family Jewels with Jerry Lewis and Paradise, Hawaiian Style with Elvis Presley, as well as a television movie, A Boy Called Nuthin' with Ron Howard.

Erin Moran

In 2013, despite reports that she would be reunited with former Happy Days co-stars Henry Winkler, Ron Howard and Scott Baio in the fourth season of Arrested Development, she did not appear in the revamped Netflix series.

Hennesey

Prior to being cast as Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show, child actor Ron Howard played "Walker", a little boy temporarily left in Hennesey's care in the 1959 episode "The Baby Sitter".

Holly Weber

Since then she began pursuing acting as a full-time profession and has had uncredited background roles in Ron Howard's Oscar nominated Frost/Nixon, Fast & Furious and The Devil's Tomb, directed by Jason Connery.

Joseph Culp

His numerous acting credits include leading roles in Alan J. Pakula’s Dream Lover, Monte Hellman’s Iguana and Maria Novaro’s El Jardin del Eden. He was featured in Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 and Mario Van Peebles’ Panther and Badassss.

Nancy Morgan

She starred opposite Ron Howard in Howard's directorial debut, Grand Theft Auto, as well as starring opposite Italian film star Terence Hill in a feature film and European television series based on comic-strip hero Lucky Luke.

Nosebleed section

In a particular episode, Richie Cunningham (played by Ron Howard) played host to a rock and roll band (contemporary 1950s era), Johnny Fish and the Fins.

Owen Chase

In the Heart of the Sea (film), the above book being adapted into a feature film by director Ron Howard, starring Chris Hemsworth, Ben Whishaw, and Cillian Murphy.