I've never been a particular fan of any genre.

Director, Producer and Actor                          

Selected Works:

Old Paint - 1969		
Deed of Daring-Do - 1969	
Cards, Cads, Guns, Gore and Death - 1969	
Eat My Dust - 1976	
Grand Theft Auto - 1977	
Night Shift - 1982	
Splash - 1984	
Cocoon - 1985 - Two Oscar wins
Gung Ho - 1986		
Willow	2 - 1988	
Parenthood - 1989	
Backdraft - 1991	
Far and Away - 1992		
The Paper - 1994	
Apollo 13 - 1995 - Two Oscar wins
Ransom - 1996	
EDtv - 1999	
The Grinch - was also a stunt double for Jim Carrey - 2000 - One Oscar win
A Beautiful Mind - 2001 - Four Oscar wins
The Missing - 2003	
Cinderella Man - 2005	
The Da Vinci Code - 2006		
Frost/Nixon - 2008
 & Demons - 2009

To Be Announced:

B-Major		
The Raven		
The Serpent and the Eagle		
Colossus		
The Emperor's Children		
Arrested Development

Television:

Cotton Candy - 1978
Skyward - 1980
Through the Magic Pyramid - 1981
Littleshots - 1983
Take Five - 1987
Arrested Development - 2003

Acting: Film

Frontier Woman - 1956
The Journey - 1959
Door-to-Door Maniac - 1961
The Music Man - 1962
The Courtship of Eddie's Father - 1963
Village of the Giants - 1965
The Wild Country - 1970
American Graffiti - 1973
Happy Mother's Day, Love George - 1973
The Spikes Gang - 1974
The First Nudie Musical - 1976
Eat My Dust - 1976
The Shootist - 1976 Golden Globe nomination
Grand Theft Auto - 1977
More American Graffiti - 1979
The Magical World of Chuck Jones - 1992 - documentary
One Vision - 1998 - documentary
The Independent - 2000
Welcome to Hollywood - 2000
How the Grinch Stole Christmas - 2000
Osmosis Jones - 2001 - voice
A Beautiful Mind - 2001
Tell Them Who You Are - 2004 - documentary
In the Shadow of the Moon - 2007 - documentary

Television:

The Twilight Zone Episode: Walking Distance - 1959
Dennis the Menace - 1959
The Andy Griffith Show - 1960-1968
The Fugitive Episode: Cry Uncle - 1964
A Boy Called Nuthin - 1967
Gunsmoke Episode: Charlie Noon - 1969
Land Of The Giants Episode: Genus At Work - 1969
Smoke - 1970
The Smith Family - 1971-1972
M*A*S*H Episode: Sometimes You Hear the Bullet - 1973
The Waltons - 1974
The Migrants - 1974
Happy Days - cast member from 1974-1980, Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Musical Or Comedy.
Locusts - 1974
Huckleberry Finn - 1975
I'm a Fool - 1976
Act of Love - 1980
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang - voice - 1980
Bitter Harvest - 1981
Fire on the Mountain - 1981
Return to Mayberry - 1986
Arrested Development - Narrator - 2003-2006
Blame It - Music Video - 2009a                          

Mother Jean Speegle Howard
Father Rance Howard, two sons Ron and Clint.
Wife Cheryl Alley, four children,  Bryce Dallas - 1981, Jocelyn Carlyle and Paige Carlyle, twins - 1985, and son Reed Cross, 1987. His daughters' middle names indicate where they were conceived, Bryce in Dallas, twins Jocelyn and Paige at the Hotel Carlyle in New York City. son Reed Cross was named after a London street because "Volvo isn't a very good middle name.