Rance Howard
Acting
Biography
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).
As actor 234
Grey's Anatomy
2005
Bones
2005
The Mike Douglas Show
1961
NCIS: Los Angeles
2009
The X-Files
1993
Seinfeld
1989
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Married... with Children
1987
Diagnosis: Murder
1993
Ghost Whisperer
2005
CSI: NY
2004
Cold Case
2003
ER
1994
Melrose Place
1992
Baywatch
1989
Quantum Leap
1989
Little House on the Prairie
1974
Babylon 5
1994
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
Dynasty
1981
Arrested Development
2003
Coach
1989
Lie to Me
2009
The Waltons
1972
Angel
1999
The F.B.I.
1965
Happy Days
1974
The Virginian
1962
Just Shoot Me!
1997
Tales from the Crypt
1989
Night Gallery
1970
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
1997
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
1956
That's So Raven
2003
Workaholics
2011
Gunsmoke
1955
7th Heaven
1996
Mork & Mindy
1978
Laverne & Shirley
1976
Switch
1975
Kraft Television Theatre
1947
Wiseguy
1987
The Rookies
1972
Bat Masterson
1958
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
2000
Independence Day
1996
Baywatch Nights
1995
Angels & Demons
2009
Battlestar Galactica
1978
ABC Afterschool Special
1972
A Beautiful Mind
2001
Clueless
1996
The Danny Thomas Show
1953
Rebel Highway
1994
Son of the Beach
2000
Apollo 13
1995
Finder of Lost Loves
1984
The Huntress
2000
Mars Attacks!
1996
Far and Away
1992
Chinatown
1974
Small Soldiers
1998
Cool Hand Luke
1967
Universal Soldier
1992
Cinderella Man
2005
The Lone Ranger
2013
Nichols
1971
Then Came Bronson
1969
Innerspace
1987
The Thorn Birds
1983
Dan August
1970
Jonah Hex
2010
Drillbit Taylor
2008
The Missing
2003
Superboy
1988
Two of a Kind
1998
Valentine's Day
2010
Splash
1984
Airplane II: The Sequel
1982
Gentle Ben
1967
Frost/Nixon
2008
Dads
2019
Rat Race
2001
The 'Burbs
1989
B.L. Stryker
1989
D-Tox
2002
Money Talks
1997
The Dilemma
2011
The Paper
1994
Cocoon
1985
The Monroes
1966
Joe Dirt
2001
Ed Wood
1994
That '80s Show
2002
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
2007
The Alamo
2004
Georgia Rule
2007
Psycho
1998
Nebraska
2013
Parenthood
1989
Terminal Velocity
1994
Sgt. Bilko
1996
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
1995
The Lonely Guy
1984
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
2011
Problem Child 3
1995
Little Giants
1994
A Death in California
1985
The Long Hot Summer
1985
Fearless
1993
Love & Sex
2000
Twenty Good Years
2006
Ticks
1993
Gung Ho
1986
Spooky Buddies
2011
The Trial
2010
Ghosts of Mississippi
1996
Creator
1985
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
1997
The Second Civil War
1997
Snapdragon
1993
Once Fallen
2010
Happy, Texas
1999
Keith
2008
The Courtship of Eddie's Father
1963
Evasive Action
1998
Play the Game
2009
Switched at Birth
1991
Traveller
1997
Second Chances
2013
Grand Theft Auto
1977
InSight
2011
Toolbox Murders
2004
A Smoky Mountain Christmas
1986
Listen to Me
1989
Love Letters
1983
Chairman of the Board
1998
Ed and His Dead Mother
1993
Eat My Dust
1976
Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
1979
The Executioner's Song
1982
Kung Fu
1972
Let Go
2011
The Wild Country
1970
Village of the Giants
1965
The Kid with the Broken Halo
1982
Land of the Free
1998
Solemates
2015
Rosewood Lane
2011
Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
1983
Harrison Bergeron
2006
Miracle at Sage Creek
2005
A Crack in the Floor
2001
B.O.R.N.
1989
Another Man, Another Chance
1977
9 1/2 Ninjas!
1991
Runaway Daughters
1994
Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
2011
Ghost Rock
2004
Forced to Kill
1994
Grizzly Park
2008
Talk Radio
2016
Back By Midnight
2005
The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
1976
The Christ Slayer
2019
An Eye for an Eye
1966
Harley's Hill
2011
Tiger Heart
1996
Apple Seed
2019
Scandal Sheet
1985
Big Wind on Campus
2000
Chez Upshaw
2015
Ping!
2001
Smokey Bites the Dust
1981
Return to Mayberry
1986
Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter
1994
The Long Ride Home
2003
Limit Up
1989
Huckleberry Finn
1978
Gentle Giant
1967
The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins
1984
Skyward
1980
Where the Lilies Bloom
1974
Max Rose
2016
The Red Pony
1973
Easy Rider: The Ride Back
2012
Forever and Beyond
1983
Ghost Town: The Movie
2008
The Colony
1995
Busted
1997
Playing with Fire
1985
Legend of the Phantom Rider
2003
Night Club
2011
Gary Coleman: For Safety's Sake
1986
The Genesis Code
2010
Boris and Natasha
1992
The Kid with the 200 I.Q.
1983
Sasquatch Mountain
2006
Broken Memories
2017
The Child Wanderers
2010
The Legend of Frank Woods
1977
Where Truth Lies
1996
Scout's Honor
1980
Frontier Woman
1956
The Kid from Left Field
1979
Boppin' at the Glue Factory
2009
Dark Before Dawn
1988
The Miracle of Kathy Miller
1981
Within
2009
Be My Baby
2007
Cotton Candy
1978
Locusts
1974
Sister Aimee: The Aimee Semple McPherson Story
2006
Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter
1991
Audie & the Wolf
2008
Death and Texas
2004
Mr. No Legs
1978
Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy
1978
40 Nights
2016
Chasing the Star
2017
Kalebegiak
2016
Holiday in Your Heart
1997
Image in a Bottle
1976
Huff
2013
Trust Me
1989
Killing Cupid
1995
Malevolence
1999
Jumping for Joy
2002
The Night Caller
1998
Abilene
1999
Gone Dark
2013
I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore
1992
Bloody Trail
1972
Two Soldiers
1986
