His influence can be traced in the works of many directors, including Robert Altman, Ron Howard, Masaki Kobayashi, Akira Kurosawa, John Lasseter, David Lynch, John Milius, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone and François Truffaut

Previous Hopwood winners include Brett Ellen Block, Max Apple, Lorna Beers, Sven Birkerts, John Malcolm Brinnin, John Ciardi, Tom Clark, Lyn Coffin, Cid Corman, Christopher Paul Curtis, Mary Gaitskill, Robert Hayden, Garrett Hongo, Lawrence Joseph, Jane Kenyon, Laura Kasischke, Elizabeth Kostova, Arthur Miller, Howard Moss, Davi Napoleon, Frank O ' Hara, Marge Piercy, William Craig Rice, Ari Roth, Davy Rothbart, Betty Smith, Ron Sproat, Keith Waldrop, Rosmarie Waldrop, Edmund White, Nancy Willard, Beth Tanenhaus Winsten, and Maritta Wolff.

The screenplay was optioned by Ron Howard and Imagine Films and is currently under development at Paramount Pictures.

* 1954 – Ron Howard, American actor and director

In 2005, he re-teamed with A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard for Cinderella Man.

* Huckleberry Finn ( 1975 film ), an ABC movie of the week with Ron Howard as Huck Finn

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In 2006, he had a prominent role in the remake of The Pink Panther and its sequel, playing Gilbert Ponton, the partner of Inspector Clouseau opposite Steve Martin, and also portrayed Captain Bezu Fache in the Ron Howard film The Da Vinci Code.

Lauda is played by Daniel Brühl in the 2013 Ron Howard film Rush about the 1976 Formula One season.

They announced Straczynski was writing Lensman for Ron Howard ( to whom he had sold a screenplay entitled The Flickering Light ), that he was selling another spec, Proving Ground, to Tom Cruise and United Artists.

The film was directed by Clint Eastwood, since originally slated director Ron Howard declined due to scheduling conflicts.

Bosom Buddies and a guest appearance on a 1982 episode of Happy Days (" A Case of Revenge ," where he played a disgruntled former classmate of The Fonz ) prompted director Ron Howard to contact Hanks.

Hanks ' next role — astronaut and commander Jim Lovell, in the 1995 film Apollo 13 — reunited him with Ron Howard.

Ronald William " Ron " Howard ( born March 1, 1954 ) is an American film director, producer and former child actor.

Ron Howard became a grandfather when his daughter, Bryce, and son-in-law Seth Gabel welcomed their first child, son Theodore Norman Howard Gabel, on February 16, 2007.

In the South Park episode " Ginger Kids ", Cartman asks a crowd of fellow gingers to name great Americans with red hair, the only name they can think of is " Ron Howard ".

When asked to name a second, one responds " Ron Howard " again.

On a VH1 special about the 100 greatest child stars, many of the interviewees considered Ron Howard to be the most successful child star of all time, considering his two major television acting roles and his directing career.

In Season 1, Episode 3 of Stroker and Hoop on Adult Swim, Stroker and Hoop run a detective agency whose first client needs them to make Ron Howard stop controlling his mind.

The video, titled " Ron Howard ’ s Call to Action ", also features Griffith and Winkler.

Ron Howard made a cameo appearance in the 2009 music video for Jamie Foxx's song " Blame It " alongside Forrest Whittaker, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Samuel L. Jackson.

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After Barks received a 1960 visit from the Spicer brothers and Ron Leonard, he was no longer anonymous, as his name soon became known to his readers.

He served as research assistant for libertarian Republican Congressman Ron Paul in Paul's first term ( 1976 ), and he shared a small office with the staunchly Calvinistic political philosopher, John W. Robbins, who later became a noted anti-Van Til, pro-Clark presuppositional apologist, author, and publisher.

In 1962 he established his own Brabham marque with fellow Australian Ron Tauranac, which became the largest manufacturer of customer racing cars in the world in the 1960s.

Ron Mix became the second AFL player and second Charger to be named to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, during halftime of the AFC-NFC Pro Bowl.

However, records with the United States Patent and Trademark Office show that the rights to the Writers of the Future name were transferred from the L. Ron Hubbard estate (" Family Trust-B ") to the Church of Spiritual Technology in 1989, and under the 1993 IRS closing agreement with the Church of Scientology, the L. Ron Hubbard estate became part of the Church of Spiritual Technology, a " Scientology-related entity ".

They also took black fullback Ron Hatcher in the eighth round, a player from Michigan State who became the first black American football player to sign a contract with the Redskins.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

Ron Turcotte became internationally famous in 1973 when he rode Secretariat to win the first Triple Crown in 25 years.

Ron Rothstein, the Heat's inaugural head coach, became an assistant coach, Steve Smith rejoined the club and Alonzo Mourning was re-signed after being released from the Toronto Raptors following the Vince Carter trade in December.

Roddy McDowall, who had a long distinguished career including as the regular star of the Planet of the Apes series ; Ron Howard, who, in addition to being the star of the long running Happy Days television series, became an Oscar-winning director in adulthood ; Elijah Wood, who continued his career successfully into adulthood from playing Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings film series and starring as Ryan Newman in the T. V.

Parsons ' 11-room home, nicknamed " The Parsonage ", became a boarding house for a variety of artists and eccentrics, including journalist Nieson Himmel, physicist Robert Cornog, and author and future Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

In 1975 Ron Smaldone's Mustang became the first-ever American car to win the Showroom Stock national championship in SCCA road racing.

Born on the Fourth of July ( ISBN 1-888451-78-5 ) is the best selling autobiography of Ron Kovic, a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran who became an anti-war activist.

Black Flag had made at least two aborted attempts to record a full-length album since the release of its first extended play Nervous Breakdown, with singers Keith Morris, Ron Reyes, and Dez Cadena ; some of the Reyes sessions became the Jealous Again EP, while selections from two of many Cadena sessions became the Six Pack EP and the " Louie Louie "/" Damaged I " single ; other session outtakes would later comprise the Everything Went Black double album.

In 2001, Ron and Ernie released the album, Eternal on DreamWorks Records, which became one of their biggest-selling releases in years, selling over two million copies and peaking at # 3 on the Billboard 200, sparked by the top 20 hit, " Contagious ".

After the break-up, Neville gained fame as part of The Neville Brothers, Modeliste toured with Keith Richards and Ron Wood, while Nocentelli and Porter " became in-demand session players and formed new bands.

Fonzie befriends Richie and the Cunningham family, and when Richie ( Ron Howard ) left the series for military service, Winkler's Fonzie became the central figure of the show.

The dictionary was one of the few recommended by author L. Ron Hubbard in his Study Hat Course, which became the basis of Study Technology, a " how-to-learn " course.

His dad became athletic director of Chillicothe Township High School ( now Illinois Valley Central High School ) as well as a respected football coach, and both Josh and older brother Ron played quarterback under him.

When Ron Radford became Director, he expanded the brief to include a suite of new galleries to display the collection of indigenous art.

It eventually became clear that Southwest Airlines would not fund the necessary transportation improvements, and the plan was shot down by King County Executive Ron Sims.