On The Andy Griffith Show, Griffith played Sheriff Andy Taylor, the straight-laced peacekeeper in the tiny town of Mayberry.

Howard also reflected on the show’s legacy in a September interview with PEOPLE In 1986, the surviving cast from the show reunited for a TV film, Return to Mayberry. In it, Andy — who married Aneta ...

Ron Howard tells PEOPLE how he and Paul McCartney connected and helped give him new perspective on his acting career Howard starred on two hit TV shows, The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days, before ...

In 1985, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer decided to make it official. The creative partners were riding high off a pair of unlikely box office hits - "Night Shift," a raunchy Michael Keaton comedy about ...