Biography
Rance Howard (born Harold Engle Beckenholdt; November 17, 1928 – November 25, 2017) was an American actor who starred in film and on television. He was the father of actor and filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard, and grandfather of actresses Bryce Dallas Howard and Paige Howard. Howard appeared in films such as Cool Hand Luke (1967), Chinatown (1974), Splash (1984), Ed Wood (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Independence Day (1996), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Cinderella Man (2005), Frost/Nixon (2008), Nebraska (2013), and Max Rose (2016). He received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for co-producing the television film The Time Crystal (1981).
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Sister Aimee: The Aimee Semple McPherson Story
Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter
The X-Files
Seinfeld
Bones
Grey's Anatomy
Ghost Whisperer
40 Nights
Babylon 5
Quantum Leap
Tales from the Crypt
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Lie to Me
Arrested Development
A Beautiful Mind
Angel
Little House on the Prairie
Chinatown
Cold Case
ER
Night Gallery
Married... with Children
Kung Fu
Cool Hand Luke
Cinderella Man
Happy Days
The Andy Griffith Show
Nebraska
NCIS: Los Angeles
Apollo 13
Ed Wood
Murder, She Wrote
Workaholics
An Eye for an Eye
The Flintstones
Frost/Nixon
CSI: NY
That's So Raven
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
The Thorn Birds
Laverne & Shirley
The Waltons
Diagnosis: Murder
Battlestar Galactica
Mork & Mindy
Broken Memories
Keith
The Legend of Frank Woods
Dads
Independence Day