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Rance Howard

1928 - 2017

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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, and Max Rose (both 2013). He received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for co-producing the television film The Time Crystal (1981). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rance Howard is the 3,873rd most popular actor (up from 4,305th in 2019), the 6,282nd most popular biography from United States (up from 6,309th in 2019) and the 1,810th most popular American Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Rance Howard ranks 3,873 out of 13,578Before her are Lillie Langtry, Chris Farley, Pearl White, Patrick Bergin, Tsuru Aoki, and Margarita Xirgu. After her are Ratna Pathak, Ed Wynn, Alfred Abel, Gladys Cooper, Tarık Akan, and Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Rance Howard ranks 357Before her are Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Ruth Westheimer, Karel Mejta Sr, John Ostrom, Eno Raud, and Mary Daly. After her are Hidetaka Nishiyama, Levko Lukianenko, Serge Bourguignon, Gerino Gerini, Frank Frazetta, and Othmar Schneider. Among people deceased in 2017, Rance Howard ranks 309Before her are Otto Warmbier, István Mészáros, François Van der Elst, Cipriano Chemello, Vitaly Churkin, and Ángel Berni. After her are Margot Hielscher, Giuliano Sarti, Vera Glagoleva, Ernst Zündel, Gisèle Casadesus, and Larry Coryell.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rance Howard ranks 6,283 out of 20,380Before her are Eli Lilly (1838), Gene Autry (1907), Ellsworth Kelly (1923), Bruce Kulick (1953), Dick Boushka (1934), and Shawn Crahan (1969). After her are Marilynne Robinson (1943), Ed Wynn (1886), Mike Bloomfield (1943), Richard H. Truly (1937), Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856), and Vivien Thomas (1910).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Rance Howard ranks 1,810Before her are Richard Burgi (1958), Tom Noonan (1951), Chuck Connors (1921), Harry Hamlin (1951), Chris Farley (1964), and Pearl White (1889). After her are Ed Wynn (1886), Genevieve Cortese (1981), Michael Paré (1958), Richard Simmons (1948), Rosario Dawson (1979), and Leslie Uggams (1943).