![]() ![]() He also starred in the short-lived 2000 TV series Driving Me Crazy. Another well-known TV role was on Babylon 5, in which he had a recurring role as David Sheridan, the father of Babylon 5 captain John Sheridan. Howard played Henry Boomhauer, a backwoodsman who befriended the family. Howard was known best for his role on television in 25 episodes of the 1960s TV series Gentle Ben starring his younger son, Clint. Īfter son Ron went on to play Opie in The Andy Griffith Show in the early 1960s, Rance had guest parts in five episodes of the show. ![]() Later in the 1950s, Rance's roles included his TV debut in the series Kraft Theatre, on which he appeared three times in 1956–57. īoth Rance and elder son Ron, who was two at the time, made their feature-film debuts together in the 1956 Western Frontier Woman. ![]() The role that got him noticed nationally for television and film was playing the part of Lindstrom in the touring company of the play Mister Roberts with Henry Fonda in 1950, portraying the character for about a year-and-a-half in major cities across the U.S. His professional acting career began in 1948 when he went to New York City, auditioned, and landed a job in a children's touring company. While in the Air Force, Howard directed plays in Special Services, a unit that provided entertainment for service members. Howard graduated from Shidler High School in 1946 and studied at the University of Oklahoma. He changed his name to "Rance Howard" when he became an actor. Howard was born Harold Engle Beckenholdt in Newkirk, Kay County, Oklahoma, the son of Ethel Cleo ( née Tomlin) and Engel Beckenholdt, a farmer. He received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for co-producing the television film The Time Crystal (1981). He was the father of actor and filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard, and grandfather of actresses Bryce Dallas Howard and Paige Howard. ![]() Their protectiveness was “rooted in love and fear, not any stage-parent concept of protecting their cash cows,” Ron says.Rance Howard (born Harold Engle Beckenholdt Novem– November 25, 2017) was an American actor who starred in film and on television. The performer, who went on to become an acclaimed director, and his brother, actor Clint Howard, 62, with whom he cowrote The Boys, credit their parents, Rance and Jean Howard, for keeping them safe and grounded during their Hollywood upbringing. For the next take, Ron pretended for the camera and the prop master, hidden behind a tree, threw the stone for him.Īs a child growing up on the set of The Andy Griffith Show, Ron, 67, became schooled in the art of make-believe, but he also witnessed some very real adult problems, prejudices and ugliness. “My skinny little arm was not powerful enough to get that rock into the water,” Ron confesses in his new book, The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family. In reality, the famous scene was filmed at California’s Franklin Canyon Lake and little Ronny Howard, then 6, couldn’t throw very far. In the opening credits of The Andy Griffith Show, Opie Taylor picks up a stone and tosses it into the bucolic waters of Myers Lake, a fishing hole on the outskirts of Mayberry. ![]()
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