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Ron Howard Acting Filmography (87)

Marty, Life Is Short
2026·Self
John Candy: I Like Me
2025·Self - Director, Splash (archive footage)
Music by John Williams
2024·Self - Filmmaker
Enterprise or Love: The Story of Far and Away
2024·Self
Willow: Behind the Magic
2023·Self - Director, Willow, 1988 / Executive Producer, Willow, 2022
Tom Hanks: The Nomad
2023·Self (archive footage)
John Wayne: Cowboys & Demons
2023·Self
Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel
2022·Self
'Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen
2022·Self
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
2021·Self
Fuck Coin
2021·Self
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
2020·Self
The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration
2019·Wilcox Boy (archive footage)
Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10
2019·Self
Dads
2019·Self
Kasdan on Kasdan
2018·Self
Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies
2017·Self
Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie
2016·Himself
Tom Hanks: A League of His Own
2016·Self
The Arrested Development Documentary Project
2013·Self
Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck
2013·Self
From Morf to Morphing: The Dawn of Digital Filmmaking
2013·Self - Director
Radioman
2012·Self
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
2011·Richie Cunningham (archive footage)
Corman's World
2011·Self - Filmmaker
Sheldon Leonard's Wonderful Life
2011·Self
Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible
2010·Self
Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story
2010·Self
Ron Howard: 50 Years in Film
2008·Self
Cannes: All Access
2007·Self
George Lucas: Creating an Empire
2005·Self
Tell Them Who You Are
2004·Self
Making a 'Splash'
2004·Self - Director
Weezer: Video Capture Device - Treasures from the Vault 1991-2002
2004·Richie Cunningham ("Buddy Holly") (archive footage)
Inside a Beautiful Mind
2002·Self
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
2002·Self
Osmosis Jones
2001·Tom Colonic (voice)
The Shootist: The Legend Lives On
2001·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Beautiful Mind
2001·Man at Governor's Ball (uncredited)
The Independent
2000·Ron Howard
Welcome to Hollywood
2000·Ron Howard
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000·Self
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999·Self / Opie Taylor / Ritchie Cunningham (archive footage)
From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic
1999·Self
The Making of 'American Graffiti'
1998·Self
Star Wars: The Magic & the Mystery
1997·Self
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997·Self
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero
1997·Self
Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13
1996·Self
Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial
1996·Herbert Biberman
Hollywood on Hollywood
1993·Host
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992·Self
The Horror Hall of Fame II
1991·Self
First Works
1989·Self
Willow: The Making of an Adventure
1988·Self - Director
Channel 99
1988
Return to Mayberry
1986·Opie Taylor
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
1985·Self (archive footage)
Night Shift
1982·Annoying Sax Player (uncredited)
Bitter Harvest
1981·Ned De Vries
Fire on the Mountain
1981·Lee Mackie
Act of Love
1980·Leon Cybulkowski
More American Graffiti
1979·Steve Bolander
Sitcom: The Adventures of Garry Marshall
1979·Self
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
1979·Richie Cunningham (archive footage)
Huckleberry Finn
1978·Huckleberry Finn
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
1978·Self
NBC Salutes the 25th Anniversary of the Wonderful World of Disney
1978·Self - Host
Grand Theft Auto
1977·Sam Freeman
I'm a Fool
1977·Andy
The Shootist
1976·Gillom Rogers
Eat My Dust
1976·Hoover Niebold
The First Nudie Musical
1976·Auditioning Actor
A Special: Olivia Newton-John
1976
The Spikes Gang
1974·Les
Locusts
1974·Donny Fletcher
The Migrants
1974·Lyle Barlow
American Graffiti
1973·Steve Bolander
Happy Mother's Day, Love George
1973·Johnny
Smoke
1970·Chris (as Ronny Howard)
The Wild Country
1970·Virgil Tanner
A Boy Called Nuthin’
1967·Richie 'Nuthin'' Caldwell
Village of the Giants
1965·Genius
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
1963·Eddie Corbett
The Music Man
1962·Winthrop Paroo
Five Minutes to Live
1961·Bobby Wilson
The Journey
1959·Billy Rhinelander