The prolific actor, director and film producer says that although the industry has changed, "the core challenge of ...

Each episode sees the honest, ethical, and all-around good guy raising his son, Opie (Ron Howard), with the help of his Aunt Bee (Frances Bavier) and his inept but lovable cousin, Deputy Barney ...

Ron Howard has been in Hollywood for basically his entire life. He started off as Opie on “The Andy Griffith Show,” and then he grew into being Richie Cunningham on “Happy Days,” where he ...

Bavier and Howard also had a first-episode moment in The New Housekeeper when little Opie runs out to Andy’s car. He’s about to take Aunt Bee to the bus station when Opie pleads for her to stay.

Most child actors aren’t taught how to act,” Ron Howard once told an interviewer. Mr. Howard, who starred as the grade-school-age scamp Opie on “The Andy Griffith Show,” exempted himself from the ...