Clint Howard

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Clinton Engle "Clint" Howard (born April 20, 1959 in Burbank , California ) is an American actor and younger brother of the director and actor Ron Howard .

Life

Clint Howard's parents, Rance Howard and Jean Speegle Howard , were film and television actors and ensured that their children were used in numerous film and television productions. Howard appeared as a child on the Andy Griffith Show , played guest roles in Bonanza , Our Sweet Home , My Friend Ben and can be seen as Balok in the Poker Games episode of the Starship Enterprise series. As a teenager he was z. B. The Streets of San Francisco , The Virginian and, along with his brother Ron Howard, in the series Happy Days to see. Clint Howard later played guest roles in productions directed by his brother .

He is one of the busiest supporting actors in Hollywood and has mostly appeared in TV series and B-movies , but also in feature films like Cocoon , Tango and Cash , Backdraft - Men Who Go Through Fire , Apollo 13 , The Grinch and in all Austin- Powers movies. Because of his extraordinary appearance and his small height of 1.66 m, he embodies rather unusual, "weird" characters. For his roles he received the MTV Movie Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1998 . Howard is one of the few actors who appeared in both the original Star Trek series and the follow-up series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Star Trek: Enterprise and Star Trek: Discovery .

Howard is married for the second time. After his first marriage, which lasted from 1986 to 1987, he has been married to Melanie Howard since 1995.

Filmography (selection)

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