Ron Howard

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🗓️ 6 May 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Oscar-winning director Ron Howard has been in show business almost since he was born. He appeared in his first movie at just 18 months old and by the age of 6 he was a star on “The Andy Griffith Show.” In this week’s episode of “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist chats with Howard about growing up on the sets of some of the most beloved shows on television, all while dreaming of being behind the camera. Howard is now one of the most acclaimed filmmakers in Hollywood, directing hits like "Apollo 13," "A Beautiful Mind," and "Frost-Nixon." He opens up to Willie about that prolific career, including his latest adventure directing the new Star Wars movie "Solo" and all the pressure that comes along with it.

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0:00.0	I'm Willie Geist back with another episode of Sunday Sit Down.
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0:32.0	Today, Oscar-winning director Ron Howard.
0:36.3	Ron Howard.
0:37.3	What a collection.
0:38.3	If you go through and you'll hear all about it, his titles from Apollo 13 to a beautiful
0:44.1	mind where he won the Oscar, Frost Nixon, but really going back even to Night Shift in
0:50.4	1982, which was the first big movie he kind of did, where it proved that he could be a
0:55.2	director coming out of happy days and coming out of the Andy Griffith show.
0:59.2	People weren't sure if they should take him seriously as a director.
1:02.7	Did Night Shift with Brian Grazer?
1:04.4	That was their first collaboration.
1:06.4	Now they've had him imagine films.
1:07.8	They've done a million great movies together.
1:10.0	Then he leapt from there from Splash.
1:11.8	Did you know Ron Howard directed Splash?
1:14.2	He directed Cocoon, a movie that also won Oscars, and it went on and on from there.
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