Ron Howard

Born March 1, 1954, in Duncan, Okla., Ron Howard has been in front of or behind the camera since his acting debut at 18 months in Frontier Woman (1956).

Four years later, Howard was cast as precocious Opie Taylor on "The Andy Griffith Show," a role he played for eight years. In 1973, director George Lucas tapped him for the part of a newly minted high school graduate in American Graffiti, and the character later served as the inspiration for Howard's persona on the TV series "Happy Days." He continued to appear in films, but his ambition by this time was to direct.

Striking a deal with producer Roger Corman, Howard helmed and starred in Grand Theft Auto (1977). He went on to direct a string of hit comedies, including Night Shift (1982) and Splash (1984), along with acclaimed works such as Apollo 13 (1995) and A Beautiful Mind (2001), for which he won a Best Director Oscar. Howard returned to the small screen in 2003 to executive-produce and narrate the sitcom "Arrested Development."

Inferno

2016 PG-13

Tom Hanks returns for a third outing as symbologist Robert Langdon. This time, Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital with no memory of the past few days and suddenly finds himself in a race to stop a madman from unleashing a plague on the world.