5. Ron Howard

Howard got his start on light-hearted sitcoms, starring as Opie Taylor on
The Andy Griffith Show and as Richie Cunningham on the sitcom
Happy Days.
His directorial career started in 1977 with the film
Grand Theft Auto. He would go on to direct such commercially successful films as
Splash,
Apollo 13, and
The Da Vinci Code.
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