Which roles did Ron Howard play as a child actor?
Howard first earned recognition for playing Winthrop Paroo, the child with the lisp in the 1963 film version of The Music Man with Robert Preston and Shirley Jones. In 1959, he was cast as “Wim” with June Allyson, portraying Vivian Wadron, in Allyson’s CBS anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson in the episode “Child Lost”. In 1960, he was cast in the role of Opie Taylor in the hit CBS television series The Andy Griffith Show, a spin-off of The Danny Thomas Show. There he portrayed the son of the local sheriff in the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina. For the entire eight seasons the show ran, he created a loving relationship with Andy Griffith on-screen, and spent a lot of time with him off-screen when not filming. The credits referred to him as “Ronny Howard.” He also appeared in the 1963 film The Courtship of Eddie’s Father with Glenn Ford and (billed as “Ronnie Howard”) in Little Boy Lost, a 1963 episode of the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour as the characte
Howard first earned recognition for playing Winthrop Paroo, the child with the lisp in the 1963 film version of The Music Man with Robert Preston and Shirley Jones. In 1959, he was cast as “Wim” with June Allyson, portraying Vivian Wadron, in Allyson’s CBS anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson in the episode “Child Lost”. In 1960, he was cast in the role of Opie Taylor in the hit CBS television series The Andy Griffith Show, a spin-off of The Danny Thomas Show. There he portrayed the son of the local sheriff in the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina. For the entire eight seasons the show ran, he created a loving relationship with Andy Griffith on-screen, and spent a lot of time with him off-screen when not filming. The credits referred to him as “Ronny Howard.” He also appeared in the 1963 film The Courtship of Eddie’s Father with Glenn Ford and (billed as “Ronnie Howard”) in Little Boy Lost, a 1963 episode of the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour as the characte
