Acting
Rance Howard
Also Known As: Harold Engle Beckenholdt
Birth Date
November 17, 1928
Death Date
November 25, 2017
(passed away at 89)
Place of Birth
Newkirk, Oklahoma, USA
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Biography
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 (2013), and Max Rose (2016). He received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for co-producing the television film The Time Crystal (1981).
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Grey's Anatomy
Martin Carroll
2005 • 1 episode
Bones
Jerold Norsky
2005 • 2 episodes
The X-Files
Old Man
1993 • 1 episode
Married... with Children
Edwin
1987 • 1 episode
Seinfeld
Blind Man
1989 • 1 episode
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961 • 1 episode
NCIS: Los Angeles
Eugene
2009 • 1 episode
Cold Case
Buddie
2003 • 1 episode
Murder, She Wrote
Fillmore
1984 • 1 episode
CSI: NY
Samuel Cooper
2004 • 1 episode
Melrose Place
Motel Manager
1992 • 1 episode
Diagnosis: Murder
Driver
1993 • 1 episode
ER
Dr. Oliver Kostin
1994 • 1 episode
Ghost Whisperer
Dirk Abrams
2005 • 1 episode
The Andy Griffith Show
Treasury agent
1960 • 2 episodes
Coach
Herman Van Dam
1989 • 1 episode
Babylon 5
David Sheridan
1994 • 3 episodes
Quantum Leap
Doc Graves
1989 • 1 episode
Little House on the Prairie
Simpson
1974 • 1 episode
Arrested Development
Rance Howard
2003 • 1 episode