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Ron Howard
And youve continued with a series on the space project.
Ron Howard: Yes. Our company, Imagine Films, in association with Tom Hanks and his company, are doing a series of programs for HBO called from the Earth to the Moon. Tom is really the visionary on this one. Brian Grazer and I are lending a little moral support, and structural support, and things like that through our company. But Ive got to say, this is really Toms brainchild. The episodes are coming out great.
What kind of formal education did you get? Did you go to school while you were working on all these TV shows?
Ron Howard: I had a kind of so-so formal education. I wasnt trouble in the classroom, but I was by no means a natural student. Id spend a little more than half the year being tutored on the set, where I was generally the only kid. If we had other kids in the episode, theyd be tutored for that week. My teacher for eight years, in my own little one-room school house, was Catherine Barton, a great woman who passed away many years ago. She meant a lot to me. She had a great love of literature and reading. I cant say that I really took to it right away, but Im 43 years old, and every so often — to this day — Ill recall something Mrs. Barton said about poetry, or st
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Life’s Work: An Interview with Ron Howard
First he won our hearts as a child and teen actor playing the beloved TV characters Opie Taylor and Richie Cunningham. Then he started directing popular (and critically acclaimed) movies, from Splash and Cocoon to Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind. Often in partnership with his Imagine Entertainment cofounder, Brian Grazer, and working with the industry’s top talent as well as its up-and-comers, Howard has produced more than films and shows, and he has acted in or directed more than , all while maintaining a reputation for being one of the nicest guys in Hollywood. As he told an audience at the Masters of Scale Summit, his aim is to make films that have a positive impact on the world – “whether it’s destigmatizing mental illness …. or celebrating cooperation and volunteerism.” His latest directorial effort, Thirteen Lives, is streaming on Amazon now.
A version of this article appeared in the January–February issue of Harvard Business Review.
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Ron Howard Biography
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