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Clint Howard
Clint Howard and David Janssen in 1965Born Clinton Howard
April 20, 1959
Burbank, California, U.S.Occupation Actor Years active 1962–present Spouse 1st wife (1986–1987; divorced)
Melanie Howard (1995–present)Clinton "Clint" Howard (born April 20, 1959) is an American film and television actor. He is a character actor with numerous brief appearances on television and films. He has played many bit parts in movies directed by his brother, actor-turned-director Ron Howard. He is also the uncle of actress Bryce Dallas Howard. His sister-in-law Cheryl Howard is also an actress.[1]
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Personal life
Howard was born in Burbank, California; the son of actors Rance Howard and Jean Speegle Howard, and the younger brother of actor-turned-director Ron Howard. He attended Robert Louis Stevenson Elementary in Burbank, California.
Howard has been married twice. His first marriage was from 1986 to 1987. He has been married to Melanie Howard since 1995.
An avid golfer carrying a ten handicap[citation needed], Howard boasts of playing 150 rounds a year. He is also known for his activity in the game World of Warcraft. Howard plays the game under the name Extas of the guild "Peekay" on the Dark Iron realm.[2]
Television
As a child actor, Howard starred on Gentle Ben, The Streets of San Francisco in the episode entitled The House on Hyde Street and The Virginian as Tommy, the proud owner of a new litter of pups in the episode entitled Melanie. He was sometimes seen on The Andy Griffith Show as "Leon," a toddler in a cowboy outfit who wandered freely around Mayberry and silently offered people a bite of his sandwich, to which they would respond, "No, thank you." In 1963, he appeared in the ABC medical drama Breaking Point in the role of four-year-old Mikey in the episode "The Gnu, Now Almost Extinct." He also starred on Rod Serling's Night Gallery as Herbie: a ten-year-old boy who could predict the near future. In 1966, he guest starred in the short-lived The Jean Arthur Show sitcom on CBS in the episode entitled "My Client, the Rooster."
One of Howard's other roles as a child actor was the voice of the elephant Hathi's son Hathi Jr. in the 1967 Walt Disney animated film The Jungle Book and the voice of Roo in Disney's animated featurettes Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (1966), and Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968) which were later incorporated into The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977).
Howard appeared in various Star Trek episodes:
- "The Corbomite Maneuver," a first-season episode of Star Trek. He briefly reprised the character he played, Balok, on Comedy Central's roast of William Shatner;
- "Past Tense Part II," a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode;
- "Acquisition," a first-season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise.
He played "Johnny Bark" on a first-season episode of Arrested Development, which was produced and narrated by his brother, Ron Howard. He was seen in an episode of Married... with Children as a creepy janitor. He played a car thief/murderer in a fourth-season episode of Seinfeld. Also, he played Creepy Rodney in the My Name Is Earl episode "Stole a Badge" (season 1 episode 22) and he was a guest star in episode 24 of season 3 of the acclaimed NBC show Heroes.[3]
As a nod to Star Trek culture, he played a part in Star Trek director J. J. Abrams' series Fringe; in the season one episode, "The Road Not Taken", playing a man who thought he was Sarek of Vulcan. (In the next episode, Leonard Nimoy was revealed as the mysterious character he was discussing.)
Film
Howard has appeared in 17 of the films that were directed by his brother, Ron Howard, including the first movie directed by his older brother when Clint was just ten years old. Other roles in the elder Howard's movies include: a morgue attendant in Backdraft, a Little League parent who taunts Steve Martin in Parenthood, a retirement home worker in Cocoon, flight controller Seymour Liebergot in Apollo 13 (he played the role of Paul Lucas in the episodes Spider and We Interrupt This Program of the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon), the mayor's assistant in How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Flynn, a factory overseer in Far and Away, a television director in EDtv, and was in both the 1986 film Gung Ho and the television show. He also played a plant specialist in the 2011 comedy The Dilemma.
He played the original Eaglebaur in the 1979 film Rock 'n' Roll High School; appeared as the head usher in Get Crazy; a Southern-fried college football fan in The Waterboy; a father of one of the main characters in Uwe Boll's Heart of America; a radio DJ in That Thing You Do!; a space tracking agent in the Austin Powers series; another flight controller Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian; a cross-dressing man named 'Nipples' in Little Nicky; the title character in the 1995 low-budget comedy-horror film Ice Cream Man; he played Rughead, a nervous and often annoying auto technician in the 1986 science fiction film The Wraith; the title role of Stanley Coopersmith in the horror movie Evilspeak; Kate the Caterer in The Cat in the Hat; featured briefly in Rob Zombie's Halloween; and appeared in the romantic comedies Play the Game and Speed-Dating.
Clint is attached to direct his first directorial piece, the feature horror film The House Of Good And Evil.[4]
In 2011, Clint is attached to play a Doctor in the Indie Horror film Down The Road [5], written and directed by Jason Christopher.[6]
Music
In 1981, Clint formed The Kempsters, a New Wave rock and roll group. The band was composed mostly of Clint's friends who were neighbors with him on Kemp Street, hence the band's name. In 1982, their original drummer, Mike "Spooner" Bauer was replaced by Tony Rodriquez and the band began to play regularly at Madame Wong's West. Clint retired the band in 1983. Although The Kempsters never released an album while together, Clint Howard has recently begun distributing a CD featuring four tracks the band recorded in various studios and seven tracks recorded live on October 17, 1982 at Madame Wong's. Clint is currently selling autographed copies of the album, which is titled No Brains At All.
Recognition
In 1998, Howard was awarded the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is largely considered a spoof on Lifetime Achievement Awards with past recipients such as Godzilla, Jason Voorhees, Chewbacca and The Three Stooges. Howard is one of two actual actors to receive the award (the other being Jackie Chan). The award was retired after Howard's receiving it and replaced with the more serious Generation Award which has been given to actors whose work defines a generation (such as Tom Cruise and Adam Sandler).
During the ceremony which Howard received his Lifetime Achievement Award, the show started a montage of other actors and celebrities talking about him, referring to him only as "Clint" giving the impression they were referring to Clint Eastwood. It wasn't until the end of the montage that it was revealed that the actual recipient was Howard.
References
- ^ Cheryl Howard at IMDB
- ^ "MySpace.com - Clint - 48 - Garçon - Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA". MySpace. http://www.myspace.com/mrclinthoward. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
- ^ "NBC Universal Media Village". NBC. http://www.nbcumv.com/entertainment/listing_detail.nbc/nbc-20090420210000.html. Retrieved 2009-04-02.[dead link]
- ^ House of Good and Evil. IMDB
- ^ Niet compatibele browser. Facebook. Retrieved on 2011-07-31.
- ^ Down the Road (2011). IMDB
External links
- Clint Howard at the Internet Movie Database
- Clint Howard at AllRovi
- Clint Howard on Myspace
- The Kempsters on Myspace
- Clint Howard at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
- About Me, Howard's biographical page from the website for The Clint Howard Variety Show
- Oct 2008 Interview with L.A. Record
- The Clint Howard Project
Media related to Clint Howard at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:- American child actors
- American film actors
- American television actors
- American voice actors
- Actors from California
- People from Burbank, California
- 1959 births
- Living people
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