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).
Known For
Movies
- Big Wind on Campus
2000
- Spooky Buddies
2011
- Audie & the Wolf
2008
- Cotton Candy
1978
- Angels & Demons
2009
- Gung Ho
1986
- A Crack in the Floor
2001
- Runaway Daughters
1994
- Land of the Free
1998
- Creator
1985
- Smokey Bites the Dust
1981
- I Don't Buy Kisses Anym...
1992
- A Smoky Mountain Christ...
1986
- Mr. No Legs
1978
- Toolbox Murders
2004
- Miracle at Sage Creek
2005
- The Red Pony
1973
- Be My Baby
2007
- Trust Me
1989
- Terminal Velocity
1994
- Grand Theft Auto
1977
- Steve Martin: A Wild an...
1978
- InSight
2011
- Skyward
1980
- The Kid with the Broken...
1982
- Dads
2019
- Splash
1984
- Locusts
1974
- Gone Dark
2013
- Dark Before Dawn
1988
- Problem Child 3
1995
- Holiday in Your Heart
1997
- Mars Attacks!
1996
- Rosewood Lane
2011
- Harrison Bergeron
2006
- Cool Hand Luke
1967
- The 'Burbs
1989
- Boppin' at the Glue Fac...
2009
- Bloody Trail
1972
- Grizzly Park
2008
- Chinatown
1974
- Ticks
1993
- The Long Ride Home
2003
- Frost/Nixon
2008
- Where the Lilies Bloom
1974
- Flatbed Annie & Sweetie...
1979
- Nebraska
2013
- Tiger Heart
1996
- Sasquatch Mountain
2006
- Cocoon
1985
- How the Grinch Stole Ch...
2000
- Harley's Hill
2011
- Let Go
2011
- Rita Hayworth: The Love...
1983
- Gentle Giant
1967
- The Courtship of Eddie'...
1963
- Forever and Beyond
1983
- Where Truth Lies
1996
- Innerspace
1987
- Sgt. Bilko
1996
- Ping!
2001
- Un autre homme, une aut...
1977
- The Miracle of Kathy Mi...
1981
- Back By Midnight
2005
- Huff
2013
- Play the Game
2009
- Universal Soldier
1992
- The Fantastic World of ...
1984
- The Colony
1995
- B.O.R.N.
1989
- The Kid with the 200 I....
1983
- Scandal Sheet
1985
- Scout's Honor
1980
- Lucy & Desi: Before the...
1991
- A Beautiful Mind
2001
- The Kid from Left Field
1979
- Cinderella Man
2005
- Parenthood
1989
- The Missing
2003
- Ed Wood
1994
- Ghost Town: The Movie
2008
- An Eye for an Eye
1966
- Listen to Me
1989
- Airplane II: The Sequel
1982
- Drillbit Taylor
2008
- Sister Aimee: The Aimee...
2006
- Little Giants
1994
- Walk Hard: The Dewey Co...
2007
- Snapdragon
1993
- Playing with Fire
1985
- Eat My Dust
1976
- Ghost Rock
2004
- Children of the Corn II...
1995
- Night Club
2011
- Death and Texas
2004
- The Lone Ranger
2013
- 9 1/2 Ninjas!
1991
- The Night Caller
1998
- The Dilemma
2011
- Kalebegiak
2016
- Fearless
1993
- Frontier Woman
1956
- Talk Radio
2016
- Yohan - Barnevandrer
2010
- Legend of the Phantom R...
2003
- Psycho
1998
- The Paper
1994
- Beverly Hills Chihuahua...
2011
- 40 Nights
2016
- The Legend of Frank Woo...
1977
- Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
- Solemates
2015
- Broken Memories
2017
- Limit Up
1989
- Village of the Giants
1965
- Apollo 13
1995
- Forced to Kill
1994
- Chasing the Star
2017
- The Christ Slayer
2019
- The Genesis Code
2010
- Far and Away
1992
- The Wild Country
1970
- Bigfoot: The Unforgetta...
1994
- The Second Civil War
1997
- Evasive Action
1998
- Once Fallen
2010
- Love & Sex
2000
- The Trial
2010
- Busted
1997
- Second Chances
2013
- D-Tox
2002
- Killing Cupid
1995
- Return to Mayberry
1986
- Independence Day
1996
- Abilene
1999
- Traveller
1997
- Huckleberry Finn
1978
- Love Letters
1983
- Joe Dirt
2001
- The Alamo
2004
- Chairman of the Board
1998
- Jumping For Joy
2002
- Apple Seed
2019
- Keith
2008
- Jonah Hex
2010
- Redemption: For Robbing...
2011
- Small Soldiers
1998
- Money Talks
1997
- Georgia Rule
2007
- Valentine's Day
2010
- The Executioner's Song
1982
- Within
2009
- The New Daughters of Jo...
1976
- Murder, She Wrote: Sout...
1997
- The Lonely Guy
1984
- Happy, Texas
1999
- Ghosts of Mississippi
1996
- Malevolence
1999
- Boris and Natasha
1992
- Two Soldiers
1986
- Easy Rider: The Ride Ba...
2012
- Gary Coleman: For Safet...
1986
- Max Rose
2016
- Rat Race
2001
TV Shows
- The Andy Griffith Show
1960
- Son of the Beach
2000
- The Rookies
1972
- Kung Fu
1972
- Ghost Whisperer
2005
- Little House on the Pra...
1974
- Two of a Kind
1998
- Cold Case
2003
- Tales from the Crypt
1989
- Angel
1999
- CSI: NY
2004
- Dynasty
1981
- Happy Days
1974
- Clueless
1996
- Diagnosis: Murder
1993
- Quantum Leap
1989
- Laverne & Shirley
1976
- That '80s Show
2002
- Babylon 5
1994
- Gunsmoke
1955
- Night Gallery
1970
- Melrose Place
1992
- Superboy
1988
- Baywatch
1989
- 7th Heaven
1996
- The Huntress
2000
- Just Shoot Me!
1997
- The Waltons
1972
- Wiseguy
1987
- ER
1994
- The Monroes
1966
- The Virginian
1962
- The Thorn Birds
1983
- Bat Masterson
1958
- ABC Afterschool Special
1972
- Gentle Ben
1967
- B.L. Stryker
1989
- Seinfeld
1989
- Baywatch
1989
- Nichols
1971
- The Andy Griffith Show
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show
1960
- Married... with Children
1987
- Gunsmoke
1955
- Arrested Development
2003
- The Long Hot Summer
1985
- Seinfeld
1989
- Lie to Me
2009
- Kraft Television Theatre
1947
- The F.B.I.
1965
- Beyond Belief: Fact or ...
1997
- The Mike Douglas Show
1961
- The Waltons
1972
- Mork & Mindy
1978
- Finder of Lost Loves
1984
- Grey's Anatomy
2005
- Bones
2005
- That's So Raven
2003
- The X-Files
1993
- Coach
1989
- Dan August
1970
- Baywatch Nights
1995
- A Death in California
1985
- Murder, She Wrote
1984
- Battlestar Galactica
1978
- NCIS: Los Angeles
2009
- Switch
1975
- Dick Powell's Zane Grey...
1956
- Then Came Bronson
1969
- Workaholics
2011
- Switched at Birth
1991