From Child Star to Celebrated Filmmaker: The Incredible and Extraordinary Life of Ron Howard
Ron Howard has entertained American viewers with his works for almost 6 decades now, either with his acting skills or his directing and producing prowess. He has graced the television screen as a young boy in The Andy Griffith Show, and he literally grew up before the viewer’s eyes. Instead of worrying about school or college, Howard was kept busy with his scripts and filming. Despite that, he still says that he had a great childhood, thanks to the people surrounding him throughout his career. Read on to discover the many successes of Howard, that helped him earn billions to save up in his bank account, enough to last him a lifetime, even as his contemporaries may be filing for bankruptcy, right now!
A Star is Born
Many know that Ron Howard grew up in Burbank, California, but that is not where the famous actor-director is from. Howard was born in Duncan, Oklahoma on March 1, 1954, to parents Rance Howard and Jean Speegle Howard. His real family name is Beckenholdt, but his father changed his last name to Howard when he started his own acting career. It was quite a common practice in Hollywood, changing one’s name and adopting screen-names, anything to ensure that you get more acting jobs. Ron’s ginger hair and light skin tone is from a mixture of ancestry, as he is of German, Dutch, Scottish, Irish, and English descent.
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