The ultimatum that placed Ron Howard at a career crossroads came when ABC wanted to change 'Happy Days' to 'Fonzie's Happy Days' - and he threatened to leave.

Anson Williams learned how to be part of a team thanks to Happy Days — on set and on the softball field. On the Jan. 30 ...

"The 250th episode we did, after Ron Howard... left the show, and his contract with NBC expired, he came home," Levant recalls, nodding to the plot line that sees Howard's Richie Cunningham and ...

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Ron Howard (Opie Taylor) has had a remarkable Hollywood success story, not only in transitioning from child actor to adult (as Richie Cunningham on Happy Days ...

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 ...

"She lead by example and we owe her so much," Ron Howard wrote of his late mother Jean's impact on his family Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Ron Howard is honoring his mother ...

While the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code was a suspenseful mystery, the making of the movie was, at times, more like a comedy. "All of our grip equipment and camera equipment was in the Mona Lisa ...

It's a family affair for the Howards. Speaking about his early life in Oklahoma, Ron, 70, ruminated on how his own parents (director Rance Howard and actress Jean Speegle) propelled his start as a ...

Ron Howard is honoring his mother, Jean Speegle Howard, on what would have been her 98th birthday. On Saturday, Feb. 1, Ron, 70, shared an undated throwback photo to Instagram that showed Jean ...

Ron (Pa) was born September 27, 1936, in Ogden, Utah to John Howard and Hazel Marie Sewell Bitton. He was raised in Wilson Lane and the family later moved to upper 24th Street in Ogden.