Clint Howard
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Clinton E. "Clint" Howard (born April 20 1959) is an American film and television actor.
Biography
Television
As a child actor, Howard starred on Gentle Ben. He was sometimes seen on The Andy Griffith Show as "Leon", a toddler in a cowboy outfit who wandered freely around Mayberry and would silently offer people a bite of his sandwich. They would respond to him "no thank you".
One of Howard's other roles as a child actor was the voice of the elephant Hathi's son Hathi, Jr. in 1967's The Jungle Book from Disney. He also was the voice of Roo in Disney's The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
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 plays Creepy Rodney in the My Name is Earl episode, "Stole a Badge" (Season 1 Episode 22).
Film
Howard has appeared in many films that were directed by his brother, Ron Howard, often playing unpleasant characters, including a callous morgue attendant in Backdraft, a sour Little League parent who taunts Steve Martin in Parenthood, an uncaring retirement home worker in Cocoon, and Flynn, a demanding, abusive factory overseer in Far and Away.
He also appeared as the head usher in Get Crazy, a television director in EdTV, a Southern-fried college football fan in The Waterboy, Seymour Liebergot in Apollo 13, a father of one of the main characters in Uwe Boll's Heart of America and in That Thing You Do (1997), as a radio interviewer,a space tracking agent in the spy series of the Austin Powers series, and a crossdresser named 'Nipples' in Little Nicky,.
Music
In 1981, Clint formed The Kempsters, a New Wave Rock & 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 4 tracks the band recorded in various studios and 7 tracks recorded live October 17, 1982 at Madame Wong's. Clint is currently selling autographed copies of the album, which is titled No Brains At All.
Clint Howard is the subject of the song Ron Howard's Brother by the Trailer Park Troubadours [1].
Recognition
In 1998, Howard was awarded the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award. The Phoenix, a Boston-based newspaper, listed Howard as 22nd in their list of "100 unsexiest men in the world," one spot behind his brother Ron.[2]
Mad magazine spoofed his cameo appearance in his brother's films with the article "The Clint Howard Collection".
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. Married twice: first in 1986 to ?, divorced 1987, and secondly in 1995 to Melanie. An avid golfer carrying a ten handicap, 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.[3]
References
External links
- Clint Howard's Official MySpace
- The Kempsters on MySpace
- Clint Howard at IMDb
- About Me, Howard's biographical page from the website for The Clint Howard Variety Show
- Clint Howard at Memory Alpha