HOWARD, Ron

HOWARD (Howard), Ron (p. 01. 03. 1953), American actor, director, screenwriter, producer.
. Even in the age of three Ronnie (as his name was written in the credits) has appeared on the screen in the film 'The woman with the Frontier' (Frontier Woman, . 1956), . and the year before made with the parents on the scene Baltimore Theater, . in the play 'The Seven Year Itch', . to 12 years has appeared in 6 films,
. The blond, neatly trimmed, short guy with the undistinguished exterior look rustic Yankee. Nevertheless, he enjoyed great popularity thanks to roles Oupi Taylor in 'The Andy Griffith Show' (1960-1968) and Richie Cunningham in another TV series 'Happy Days' (1974-1980). And even famous in 1973 as an acting ensemble retro-comedy 'American Graffiti' (American Graffiti) George Lucas about the youth of small towns in America, . debuting only at 24 years formulation of low-budget pictures 'Big avtoograblenie' (Grand Theft Auto, . 1977) - a script written by him together with his father, . actor Ransom Howard - Howard Jr., . originally from Oklahoma, . still remained as to provincial Hollywood, . an ordinary resident of the backwoods.,
. Being married to her classmate Cheryl, . father of four children and settled with his family to live in Connecticut (where, . allegedly, . he prefers to assemble the footage of his films), . it willy-nilly like marktvenovskogo eccentric, . which proved, . true, . not at the court of King Arthur, . But on Wednesday the California kinoelity,
. Successful activities in the early 80-ies as a comedy writer-producer ( 'Night Shift', . Night Shift, . 1982; 'Splash', . Splash, . 1984; 'Cocoon', . Cocoon, . 1985; 'One-two, . heave! ", . Gong Ho, . 1986) confirmed, . that Ron Howard well suited to the role of a funny guy and an average of one-storey (including geographically) of America, . world resemble one another suburby (among other, . as an executive producer, he collaborated in 1989 with director Joe Dante on the set of pictures with the slang The 'Burbs, . truncated version of the word suburbs, . ie 'suburbs'),
. Fantasy-tale 'Willow' (Willow, . 1987), . produced by George Lucas, . and the tendency for Americans melodramatic family comedy 'parental feelings' (Parenthood, . 1989) also did not refute the prevailing image of my own way and very reliable (and in a friendly, . in the business sense) representative of the generation of 'baby boom'.,
. Howard, perhaps, the stars from the sky did not suffice, followed in the wake of pioneers - Lucas and Spielberg, and a couple of other Spielberg protц?gц? Robert Zemeckis was worthy of leadership transition superzrelischnogo movies
. What seems to be proved and the following two moschnopostanovochnye tapes related by early 90-ies - 'Backdraft' (Backdraft, 1991) and 'Far Country' (Far And Away, 1992). By the way, . reputation of the director, . who does not like risk, . in the latter case with the epic saga of the Irish immigrants coming to the reclamation of the Wild West has been threatened, . because it was necessary to compensate for the high budget amounted to U.S. $ 70 million,
. But three of his last works - two as a director ( 'Apollo 13', . Apollo 13, . 1995; 'Redemption', . Ransom, . 1996) and one ( 'Camera', . The Chamber, . 1996) as executive producer - show almost unconditionally, . that Howard came at a time of worldly and artistic maturity and, . assigned to it in spite of the characteristics of colleagues, . to a large extent inclined now resolved to unexpected projects.,
. Significantly not what Ron Howard has shown the desire to polizhanrovosti - it is almost a signature feature of many past and current directors of Hollywood, the true film professionals
. Since the tapes 'Backdraft', . This director felt a craving for more dramatic story (curiously, . that shortly before he and a producer was involved in the emergence of completely unexpected paintings - 'Clean and sober' (Clean And Sober, . 1988) about the problem of drug addiction and alcoholism, . 'Country in the closet' (Closet Land, . 1991) - the manifestation of violence in dictatorships),
. Spectacular Backdraft, . tense scenes in space, . where astronauts suffer an accident, . acute bout father abducted the child from blackmailer, . ransom, . Finally, . stubborn desire of a young lawyer to get to the truth - all this is more or less carries and even captures,
. Most interesting of all is to observe not only the external actions, but also for the inner drama of the characters, often overestimate their life in one brief instant, which remained until the possible and sometimes unavoidable death.
. Sergey Kudryavtsev
. 1959 TOUR / THE JOURNEY Artist
. 1961 DOOR-TO-DOOR MANIAC / FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE Artist
. 1962 MUSICIAN / THE MUSIC MAN singer
. 1963 THE COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER Executive
. 1965 VILLAGE OF THE GIANTS Executive
. 1970 SMOKE / SMOKE Executive
. 1971 WILD COUNTRY / THE WILD COUNTRY singer
. 1973 American Graffiti / AMERICAN GRAFFITI artist
. 1973 HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, LOVE GEORGERUN, STRANGER, RUN Executive
. 1974 LOCUSTS Executive
. 1974 WORKERS / THE MIGRANTS Executive
. 1974 BANDA SPIKE / THE SPIKES GANG Executive
. 1975 GEKKLBERRI Finn / HUCKLEBERRY FINN Executive
. 1976 EAT MY DUST! Executive
. 1976 FIRST Nudist MYUZKIL / THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL Executive
. 1976 ARROWS / THE SHOOTIST Executive
. 1977 BIG AVTOOGRABLENIE / GRAND THEFT AUTO director, screenwriter, singer
. 1978 ROGER CORMAN: HOLLYWOOD'S WILD ANGEL singer
. 1979 More American Graffiti / MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI artist
. 1980 LEO AND LORI / LEO AND LOREE Executive Producer
. 1980 SKYWARD director
. 1981 BITTER HARVEST / BITTER HARVEST Executive
. FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN 1981 / FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN Artist
. 1981 THROUGH THE MAGIC PYRAMID director
. 1982 Night Shift / NIGHT SHIFT director
. 1984 VSPLESK / SPLASH director
. 1985 COCOON / COCOON director
. 1986 one-two CALLS! / GUNG HO executive producer, director
. 1986 RETURN TO MAYBERRY Artist
. 1987 DRAW THE LAND / NO MAN'S LAND executive producer
. 1987 Willow / WILLOW director
. 1988 CLEAN AND SOBER / CLEAN AND SOBER Executive Producer
. 1988 JUST ONE STEP: THE GREAT PEACE MARCH singer
. 1988 VIBES Executive Producer
. 1989 SUBURB / THE 'BURBS producer
. 1989 parental feelings / PARENTHOOD director, plot
. 1991 Backdraft / BACKDRAFT director
. 1991 COUNTRY IN CLOSET / CLOSET LAND soispolnitelny producer
. 1992 distant country / FAR AND AWAY the director, plot
. 1992 THE MAGICAL WORLD OF CHUCK JONES
. 1994 NEWSPAPER / THE PAPER director
. 1995 APOLLO 13 / APOLLO 13 director