Ron Howard Filmography: Movies and Television Credits

This Ron Howard filmography covers 24 movie titles and 32 television titles from the available cast credits. Multiple roles in the same title are grouped together. It is a selection of screen credits, rather than a complete record of every performance. Credits may include acting, voice work, uncredited roles and appearances as themselves.

Ron Howard movies by release year

The years below are film release years, not filming dates.

• The Journey (1959) as Billy Rhinelander
• Five Minutes to Live (1961) as Bobby Wilson
• The Music Man (1962) as Winthrop Paroo
• The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963) as Eddie Corbett
• Village of the Giants (1965) as Genius
• American Graffiti (1973) as Steve Bolander
• The Spikes Gang (1974) as Les
• Eat My Dust (1976) as Hoover Niebold
• The First Nudie Musical (1976) as Auditioning Actor
• The Shootist (1976) as Gillom Rogers
• Grand Theft Auto (1977) as Sam Freeman
• More American Graffiti (1979) as Steve Bolander
• Night Shift (1982) as Annoying Sax Player (uncredited)
• Return to Mayberry (1986) as Opie Taylor
• A Beautiful Mind (2001) as Man at Governor's Ball (uncredited)
• Osmosis Jones (2001) as Tom Colonic (voice)
• Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible (2010) as Self
• Corman's World (2011) as Self - Filmmaker
• The Arrested Development Documentary Project (2013) as Self
• Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016) as Himself
• Dads (2019) as Self
• Peanuts in Space: Secrets of Apollo 10 (2019) as Self
• Music by John Williams (2024) as Self - Filmmaker
• John Candy: I Like Me (2025) as Self - Director, Splash (archive footage)

Ron Howard television roles and appearances

Television titles are listed alphabetically. An appearance date is included only where verified for Ron Howard; a programme's premiere year does not establish when a performer appeared in it.

• 100 Years of Warner Bros. as Self
• Arrested Development as Narrator
• Bonanza as Ted Hoag
• Daniel Boone as Luke
• Dennis the Menace as Stewart
• E! True Hollywood Story
• Frasier as Stephen (voice)
• Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. as Opie Taylor
• Great Performances as Self
• Gunsmoke as Jamie
• Happy Days as Richie Cunningham
• How To with John Wilson as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• I Spy as Alan Loden
• Land of the Giants as Jodar
• Lassie
• Laverne & Shirley
• LIGHT & MAGIC as Self - Academy Award Winning Filmmaker; Self; Self - Director, Cocoon; Self - Director, Willow
• MAS*H as Wendell
• MADtv as Self
• Only Murders in the Building as Ron Howard
• The Andy Griffith Show as Opie Taylor
• The Big Valley as Tommy
• The F.B.I. as Jess Orkin
• The Fugitive as Gus
• The Odd Couple as Stanley
• The Oscars as Self
• The Simpsons as Ron Howard (voice)
• The Studio as Ron Howard
• The Twilight Zone as Wilcox Boy
• The Waltons
• The Wonderful World of Disney as Chris
• This Is Us as Ron Howard (uncredited)

Credit information: TMDB, with additional sources listed below where used. The titles shown here do not establish the beginning or end of Ron Howard's career, and omissions should not be treated as evidence that a credit does not exist.