Decades before Happy Days and his career as a film director, Ron Howard, age 5, was best known as Opie, the son of Andy Griffith, a sheriff in the sleepy burg of Mayberry, North Carolina.

Ron Howard, who found fame as a child star on the ... Knotts played his bumbling deputy, Barney Fife. Griffith died at the age of 86 following a heart attack in 2012. Knotts died in 2006 at ...

Ron Howard revealed that he was related to his Andy ... It was recently confirmed that Don and I were actually distant cousins!' At the age of give, Howard was cast as Odie Taylor on The Andy ...

Bryce Dallas Howard/Instagram Bryce Dallas Howard is celebrating her dad Ron Howard's birthday with a heartfelt tribute. On Saturday, March 1, Bryce, 43, shared a post on Instagram in honor of her ...

The duo appeared alongside actor Clint Howard, Ron's brother, at MegaCon in Orlando Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for three years. Her work has ...

Ron Howard, who found fame as a child star on the ... Knotts played his bumbling deputy, Barney Fife. Griffith died at the age of 86 following a heart attack in 2012. Knotts died in 2006 at ...