Ron Howard, who played Opie on "The Andy Griffith Show" as a child, said he recently found out that he and former co-star Don Knotts are distant cousins.

Decades before Happy Days and his career as a film director, Ron Howard, age 5, was best known as Opie, the son of Andy ...

The Andy Griffith Show brought a sense of laughter and community into our homes-and Mayberry's quirky crew of characters ...

Turns out Mayberry was smaller than we knew. Ron Howard, who found fame as a child star on the hit 1960s series “The Andy Griffith Show,” recently shared a photo on social media that showed him with ...