{"id":2985,"date":"2017-11-28T16:52:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T21:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2017-12-01T16:50:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T21:50:54","slug":"rance-howard-actor-and-the-father-of-ron-howard-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/28\/rance-howard-actor-and-the-father-of-ron-howard-dies-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Rance Howard, Actor and the Father of Ron Howard, Dies at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2986\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rance_howard_feat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rance_howard_feat.jpg 450w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rance_howard_feat-272x300.jpg 272w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rance_howard_feat-260x287.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rance_howard_feat-160x176.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>Veteran Hollywood actor Rance Howard, the father of director Ron Howard, died Saturday. He was 89.<\/p>\n<p>Ron Howard announced his father&#8217;s death on Twitter Saturday afternoon. He praised his father for the ability to balance ambition with great personal integrity.<\/p><div id=\"morty-261160028\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;A Depression-era farm boy, his passion for acting changed the course of our family history,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;We love &amp; miss U Dad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rance Howard&#8217;s death also was confirmed by Michael Rosenberg, a spokesman for his son&#8217;s production company.<\/p>\n<p>The elder Howard was the father of actor Clint Howard and grandfather of actresses Bryce Dallas Howard and Paige Howard.<\/p>\n<p>Rance Howard was born Harold Rance Beckenholdt on November 17, 1928 was a character 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 the actresses Bryce Dallas Howard and Paige Howard.<\/p><div id=\"morty-856136212\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Howard appeared in many notable films such as <em>Cool Hand Luke<\/em> (1967), <em>Chinatown<\/em> (1974), <em>Splash<\/em> (1984), <em>Ed Wood<\/em> (1994), <em>Apollo 13<\/em> (1995), <em>Independence Day<\/em> (1996), <em>A Beautiful Mind<\/em> (2001), <em>Cinderella Man<\/em> (2005),<em> Frost\/Nixon<\/em> (2008), <em>Nebraska<\/em> (2013) and <em>Max Rose<\/em> (2016).<\/p>\n<p>Howard was born Harold Rance Beckenholdt in Duncan, Oklahoma, the son of Ethel Cleo (n\u00e9e Tomlin) and Engel Beckenholdt, a farmer. He changed his name to &#8220;Rance Howard&#8221; when he became an actor. Howard studied at the University of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<h2>Career<\/h2>\n<p>His professional acting career began in 1948 when he went to New York City, auditioned and landed a job in a children&#8217;s touring company. The role that got him noticed nationally for television and film was playing the part of Lindstrom in the touring company of the play Mister Roberts with Henry Fonda in 1950, portraying the character for about a year-and-a-half in major cities across the U.S.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2988\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rance_howard_with_son_ron.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2988 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rance_howard_with_son_ron-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rance_howard_with_son_ron-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rance_howard_with_son_ron-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rance_howard_with_son_ron-1024x688.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rance_howard_with_son_ron-560x377.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rance_howard_with_son_ron-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rance_howard_with_son_ron-160x108.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rance_howard_with_son_ron.jpg 1178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rance Howard and sons Ron &amp; Clint<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Both Rance and elder son Ron, who was two at the time, made their feature film debuts together in the 1956 western Frontier Woman.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the 1950s, Rance&#8217;s roles included his TV debut in the series Kraft Theatre, on which he appeared three times in 1956\u201357.<\/p>\n<p>After son Ron went on to play Opie in <em>The Andy Griffith Show<\/em> in the early 1960s, Rance had guest parts in five episodes of the show. Howard was known best for his role on television in 25 episodes of the 1960s TV series <em>Gentle Ben<\/em> starring his youngest son, Clint. Howard played Henry Boomhauer, a backwoodsman who befriended the family. Another well-known TV role was on <em>Babylon 5<\/em>, in which he had a recurring role as David Sheridan, the father of <em>Babylon 5<\/em> captain John Sheridan.<\/p>\n<p>He also starred in the short-lived 2000 TV series <em>Driving Me Crazy<\/em>. His television guest appearances include <em>Gunsmoke<\/em>, <em>Bonanza<\/em>, <em>Kung Fu<\/em>, <em>The Waltons<\/em>, <em>CBS Schoolbreak<\/em> Special 1986 episode &#8220;The Drug Knot&#8221;, <em>Angel<\/em>, <em>7th Heaven<\/em>, <em>Cold Case<\/em>, <em>That&#8217;s So Raven<\/em>, and two appearances on Seinfeld (as different characters). On <em>The Waltons<\/em>, Howard portrayed Dr. McIver in five different episodes, one of which included Ron.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2987\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2987\" style=\"width: 860px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/clint_and_ron_howard_for_huck_finn.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2987 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/clint_and_ron_howard_for_huck_finn-1024x810.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/clint_and_ron_howard_for_huck_finn-1024x810.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/clint_and_ron_howard_for_huck_finn-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/clint_and_ron_howard_for_huck_finn-768x608.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/clint_and_ron_howard_for_huck_finn-560x443.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/clint_and_ron_howard_for_huck_finn-260x206.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/clint_and_ron_howard_for_huck_finn-160x127.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/clint_and_ron_howard_for_huck_finn.jpg 1249w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Howard (left) next to his father Rance Howard in Huckleberry Finn (1975)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Howard acted in many of his son Ron&#8217;s films including <em>Splash<\/em>, <em>Cocoon<\/em>, <em>Apollo 13<\/em>, <em>A Beautiful Mind<\/em>, <em>Cinderella Man<\/em> and <em>Frost\/Nixon<\/em>. Exceptions include <em>Night Shift<\/em>, <em>Willow, Backdraft<\/em>, <em>Ransom<\/em>, <em>EDtv<\/em>, and <em>The Da Vinci Code<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Howard appeared in over 100 films, including the 1967 movie <em>Cool Hand Luke<\/em>, <em>The Music Man<\/em> (in an uncredited bit part playing &#8220;Oscar Jackson&#8221;), and many other films. He also appeared as Dottie and Kit&#8217;s father in <em>A League of Their Own<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, he played Woody Grant&#8217;s brother in <em>Nebraska<\/em>. He often took parts as a priest or minister, county sheriff, or western marshal, and made numerous appearances in films by Joe Dante.<\/p>\n<p>His final film role, completed in September 2017, is also the largest in his career. He plays the role of Carl Robbins in Michael Worth&#8217;s 2018 road trip drama, playing on film for the first time the father of his real-life son Clint Howard.<\/p>\n<h2>Personal life<\/h2>\n<p>Howard was married to actress Jean Speegle Howard in Burbank, California, from 1949 until her death, in September 2000. Their sons are actor and filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard. He was also the grandfather of actress Bryce Dallas Howard and Paige Howard. His son Ron was born while he served three years in the United States Air Force.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, Howard married Judy Howard, a year after his first wife&#8217;s death. Judy Howard died in January 2017 in Burbank, ten months before Rance&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Howard died on the morning of November 25, 2017, in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 89; no cause was given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Hollywood actor Rance Howard, the father of director Ron Howard, died Saturday. He was 89. 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