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Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954 in Duncan, Oklahoma) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor, film director, and producer, primarily for his roles on sitcoms, movies and television, who came to prominence in the 1960s as Andy Griffith's son, Opie Taylor, on The Andy Griffith Show, and later as Tom Bosley's son & Henry Winkler's best friend, Richie Cunningham, on Happy Days (a role he played from 1974 to 1980).