At 70, Ron Howard FINALLY Admits How Much He Truly Hated Him

At 70, Ron Howard FINALLY Admits How Much He Truly Hated Him
Although shows are on air for a few years and movies are one-time things, some are truly timeless in America's hearts. Fans come to know and love characters who end up feeling like real friends as we become accustomed to their personalities, strengths, and weaknesses. Like every other high profile show, what unseen drama and hidden rivalries lurk when the curtains are dropped and the cameras turned off? Does Ron's mysterious disdain for Opie reveal deeper secrets lurking beneath the surface?
Join us as well delve into the reasons why Ron Howard Truly Hated Him.

[@maryweber786]

I didn't read anything about anyone hating anybody...

[@Chuckles..]

I loved Don Knotts. Seeing The Ghost And Mr Chicken on the big screen when I was six years old was an amazing experience.

[@ericwright4804]

I LOVE The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. Such a wonderful film and Don is perfect in it.

[@Miss.kittty]

I love that movie 🎬

[@ClubLadyCat]

The BEST! Such a great movie!

[@sgtyork9330]

All of Don's movies were good. However, The Ghost and Mr Chicken was his best. The Incredible Mr Limpet was also very good.

[@chevy5656]

I’m 77 & I remember when the show first started, I still watch this loved show!

[@THERTOGAL]

Don Knox was extremely talented especially in that role. His daughters said he would practice nightly for hours in front of a mirror for the next day’s shoot. He didn’t quit until he perfected his facial expressions etc. What a great talent.

[@Unknown17]

As a child actor, Ron Howard never sounded like a dumb little kid reciting lines. Can we take a moment to appreciate how verbally talented he was compared to other child actors? He articulated his lines so perfectly and seemed very intelligent by the way he spoke. That verbal talent has served him well throughout his long career in the biz!

[@kellyu765]

Grew up watching this and at 54 I am still watching it every day! I have the Andy Griffith trivia game… and can beat anyone! I know every single episode and each character. It is my all time favorite show! It’s when TV was worth watching and always had a great message and loads of laughter along the way… mixed in with a few tears at times. It was the one show our whole family loved and enjoyed together. I now have 2 grown children and they also grew up with this show… it’s truly a timeless classic. Thanks for all the laughs through the years! And being a native of NC (Charlotte) made it all the more special… All those sayings and the southern talk made it more than just a show and characters…. They seemed more like extended family! 📺🍿📽🎬🏡 🎣 🐟🔫⚖️🚔🚓👨‍✈️👨‍✈️🪕🎶💙

[@t0mmyinn1tt40]

Im 76 and could have gone to meet my maker without knowing Andy was hated by Oppie. Loved that show and still watch it.

[@inkypink100]

Ron said in an interview that Andy was much like his own father.

[@timmotel5804]

Good Day. I'm 72. The "Sitcom Days" on TV were wonderful. This was one of the great ones. I can still hear the opening whistling tune. Thank You and Best Regards.

[@tailspin6572]

simply the best family television show ever! 🌈 whenever I watch my favorite episode "Opie the Birdman", it never fails to warm my heart! ❤ ❤ ❤

[@shantoriareaves3194]

That's sad to hear that he wasn't happy about being a child actor, being that he was so great at it. We still love the two most memorable characters he played, Opie and Richie. And as for all the other hats he wore, we will never forget Ron Howard!!!❤❤❤

[@jc4evur661]

Everyone in Mayberry seemed very happy! Everyone in Mayberry was single. Except for one character...Otis the town drunk

[@josephadiaz8343]

Loved this show then and still love it today, I also loved "Happy Days"👍♥️🙏✝️✌️😎

[@user-ts3mi4zk2n]

I've watched this show since it began. Our cable carries 3 hours of old episodes every day . This show brings a strange comfort to me. Each character is played so well they became real to viewers. I loved the show all those years ago, and I still do. Rest in peace to all those neighbors and friends I made so long ago,..❤ Thank You ...😊

[@marvinbone1379]

Thank you ! "A Face In The Crowd" is one of the greatest American movies, ever.

[@egold1006]

My father was lucky to meet Andy and Danny at a NYC restaurant in 1965. He autographed the menu and said thanks. The thanks meaning how much I enjoyed the show.

[@raulduke6105]

Every time I have read about Andy and Ron , Howard says ‘he was all business.’ Don did not quit, his contract was up and he signed a 3 picture movie deal. He stated he was flabbergasted when Andy called him back for another year! He had always told Don that they were working for 5 years only.

[@romeoslover817]

A face in the crowd is worth a watch. It is one of my favorite older movies.

[@BrisLS1]

Andy was a giant actor, Face in the Crowd was a master work! Knotts was a war hero. These are the best of people.

[@MD76MAC]

Ronnie should be grateful for the opportunity he had with Andy Griffith. Without it, he would be where he is now.

[@gregoryoleynik3698]

I grew up in Hummelstown PA. back in 1963 - 67. It was my Mayberry with a crik and soda pop machine as well as many other things.

[@kishannaconandoyle1907]

I loved Matlock episode with Andy Griffith and Randy Travis singing together. ❤

[@michaelclark4043]

Don Knotts and Jim Nabors were my two favorite characters. ❤ 😂 😅 😊

[@caleblauber1441]

I remember Andy, Opie, aunt bee, Barney fife & all the gang. I was just a little kiddo, but I remember all their shows. Thank you for such great memories!!! I still watch then any chance I can.

[@elizabethcurcio9044]

I remember watching this show when I was little . It was a show that we could all watch as a family !! The shows today are so very different from back then . U hv to kw what the shows are rated today before u sit down to enjoy it w/ your family !!

[@tonyprice5344]

The show was about wholesome family values where caring for one another wasn't just accepted, it was expected. In today's sitcom offerings the show is also unique in that it had no political agenda. The only thing the show promoted was decency and respect.

[@angelcharlie2012]

My very first car was a 1964 ford galaxy 500. I traded a tv and a cb radio for it and I thought it was the greatest car ever. 😊

[@daleandrews3552]

As a kid in the '60's, I always loved Andy Griffith. My parents even had an album of him telling G-rated jokes!

[@Starrmiller]

I still watch The Andy Griffith show today! Every evening I never miss it! It's still one of my favorites! If Ron Howard despise Andy "You could've fooled me" lol

[@wingdeedee8985]

OLD MAN HERE LOVED IT

[@noneyabusiness9441]

As kids, we did not like Opie because we could not live up to the expectations he put out which made our parents not like us as much as opie

[@eliottrobinson8288]

This was when family was held in high regards. I miss these days.

[@maryannevitale2515]

What great memories still of a great sitcom & Ron Howard!! Fan from Massachusetts

[@lonnieaguilera725]

Remember this a TV show/ make believe, it's known as acting. Not everyone that works together, gets along. Period

[@new2vero2]

They treated Child actors like dogs .. look what they did to Judy Garland .. up until 90s kid actors where treated badly .. that’s why they “snapped”

[@malkaz9167]

Ron Howard lived in my building. He is a kind and gentle man. Everyone loved him.

[@KaizenEnergyUS]

Thank you Andy Griffith for all the fun.

[@MR-pr8tp]

When I need to relax or deviate from the hate and down times, I watch my boxed set and just relaxes me. Love this TV series: no violence but southern humor and a moral to boot. I have my favorites of course and some I don't like but still my all time favorite TV.

[@GodisPerfect668]

My sister in law hated that show because she felt it made the ppl in the south look stupid. I never felt that way and lived the little town life it portrayed. Wish life was still like that. Im from NC and if i remember correctly the show was filmed at Mt Pilot area. Aunt Bee lived in Siler City in NC and lived in the same house untill she passed. It was nothing to drive by her house, looked like any southern home in the area. A lot of towns in NC were just like Mayberry for yrs. Mainly small towns etc. Im proud to be a southerner and really do not care what other ppl think about southerners. U cannot find nicer ppl and ppl that will go out of their way to help others. A good majority of NC excluding some of the big cities r stiil the same in helping others.

[@MaryB_TN]

Mayberry was actually based on Mt. Airy NC. VERY spot on

[@janetdunlop6132]

I REALLY ENJOYED THAT SHOW OPIE WAS A CUTE LITTLE BOY BRINGING BACK MEMORIES

[@michaelclark4043]

Ðon Knotts and Jim Nabors were my favorite characters on the show. ❤ 😂 😅 😊

[@barbarapetry8013]

Have enjoyed this production of Andy Griffith and The Andy Griffith Show. Was a favorite in our house. And yes , I lived in North Carolina... Born and raised there.. Lived that show.Tha m you for this look back ..

[@buzzwaldron6195]

Andy Griffith Show/Mayberry RFD was actually a spin off from Danny Thomas Show... Danny got a traffic ticket from Andy...

[@jefrefrank8496]

Great show growing up with back then and still love it

[@crystalewers1149]

These shows had an integral part to society learning about empathy and morals. I wish they showed these in school to the youngest of our children. Along with Little House On the Prairie.

[@mrbruc3lee]

Thank you for all the hard work. I am 59 and love this show.

[@DavidCox-rv3xu]

Thanks for the memories.

[@garyneilson3075]

Ron Howard.... One of the finest, most real, of all the child actors.... He added much to the series!!! Opie and Barney are my fav, but all in it are great!

[@Kendrix1]

It was sad Andy was so greedy he wouldn't share with Don Knott's Don Knott's made that show.....

[@glenrichdale]

A great show and actors in a much simpler time in life!

[@user-nz5eq1yo5o]

I heard it said that, the main reason why they could portray such a happy town of Mayberry for all those years... was because the only person who was MARRIED was the town drunk.

[@cynthiamcgee4829]

Love the show still watch it when it comes on reruns and I loved every single cast and character, as well as the actors and actresses who were the actual singers of the Darling family. One of my favorite songs that they do on the show is There is a Time which I do have downloaded to my phone.

[@roberteshaw9520]

Great show. I probably saw every episode, many, numerous times.

[@amirouchethelionofnumidia7092]

I immigrated to the USA from Algeria in 1997. I grew up watching American Shows like the " Little house on the prairie" in French, and When I came to the USA, I loved watching the Andie Griffith show as it was clean and family oriented. After the end of the last great shows of the 1980s, and 1990s like Seinfeld, the King of Queens, everybody loves Raymond, Full house etc. I decided to throw my TV around the year 2013. I haven't watched any television since because of the debauchery, filth, homosexuality, degeneracy, communism, socialism, wokeness and America hating shows and what have you. if you asked me about any actors or shows after 2013, I would not be able to name anyone. Nowadays, if I wanted to watch anything, I just go to my computer and watch the honey mooners, the king of queens, everybody loves Raymond, Sanford and son, and even old movies from the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s etc... The last great movie I watched was Shawshank redemption, Good Will hunting, the Last of the Mohicans, Gladiator, Braveheart etc... Movies and shows today are a cesspool of communism, DEI, and socialism.

[@cathylarkins9949]

I grew up watching this show…what a shame there was hidden conflict for all those years

[@felixmadison5736]

Ron Howard is the spitting image of his old man.

[@lensterhatchell7140]

I loved the black and white episodes with Barney on it. The ones in color without Barney just sucked

[@michaelclark4043]

If he wasn't a goofball he wouldn't be Barney Fife! ❤😂😅😊

[@joydavis7462]

Our family still watchs ! 😊

[@TD402dd]

When I was in the Navy, I drove from Virginia Beach to my home in North Atlanta. I drove all around North Carolina, and never saw any town like the one in the series. Remember the town in the series had dirt streets. I never saw a town in North Carolina like Mt. Airy.

[@user-yf6ds8ez6c]

I grew up in a "Mayberry" that was much smaller than the one on TV. A population of 75 or so if everyone was home. Now there are 5. Pretty much a ghost town. The only thing left is the post office.

[@normanbaratelli4651]

Andy Griffith was a lovable public persona and a very good actor. My favorite movie of his is "A Face In The Crowd", with co-star Patricia Neal. Anybody who likes him should try to see the film. I also remember that he did a record that was awfully funny. It came out in 1953, about a football game. I found it very clever as a kid.

[@iGame3D]

That kid was amazing at memorizing his lines!

[@judypierce7028]

Loved this show and the characters. I especially loved Opie.

[@maryleve4793]

My mom used to cut men's hair in the 60's through the 80's. She told me that where she worked, Andy Griffith went there to get his hair cut. She told me there was a young black boy there who shined the clients shoes. My mom told me that Andy Griffith was very rude, and very mean to the little boy. My mom said, she was very disappointed on seeing that and never liked him again after that.

[@cedricross2991]

Loved watching Gomer Pyle ❤❤!!! I lived in Hawaii in the 70's and 80's, and would see Jim Nabors looking out at his beach house at the ocean!!!

[@qbk29]

Love this show. My favorite characters were Barney,Opie,Goober, Ernest T Bass & the Darlings. Ernest T was a hot mess. I still watch this show.

[@Jemasonj]

My favorite character on the show? Ernest T. Bass! Hands down!

[@geenerheimer9266]

Thanks Ron Howard, idk what i would have done without growing up watching the Andy Griffith show, and now Bryce Dallas Howard as an adult lol.

[@AHouseDivided1998]

Ron did an endorsement for Barack Obama in 2008 with both Andy and Henry Winkler. Don’t think he would have done that if he still hated him.

[@andywood5699]

Wow! That was a ton of information. Thank you for your hard work and research putting this together.

[@stephenkunst7550]

A little discussed concept in child psychology explores the transformation of every person pre puberty and post puberty. The personality of each of us largely disappears once puberty fully sets in. I think of it as if there is one actor playing the role of each of us from infancy to puberty, then another actor taking over the role as the post puberty person. Some traits we had in those young years carry over, but many disappear. This allows the older version of us to look back on the younger version as they would look at a sibling or person they knew in school.

[@just_kos99]

Ron and my oldest brother David were born the exact same day, 3/1/54.

[@aviator1962]

Interesting video. Loved the show. Still do.

[@billybassman21]

Aunt Bee seemed like the type you wouldn't want as a neighbor, glad she made amends before she passed. I think the fact she never married or had kids may have been a big part why she was so uptight.

[@donnamartens1055]

I knew Aunt Bea and Andy didn’t get along but I didn’t have any idea about Opie and Andy.

[@bobby-ov9qn]

One of the greatest tv shows ever.

[@arcticfox6808]

I grew up on syndicated television. The two personalities if you can learn to jockey between them that will get you the furthest in life are Andy Taylor and Captain Kirk. Be a balance of these two and you can handle anything.

[@carolmaplesden916]

I went to high school with a girl that at the time of graduation said she was Ron Howard sister n law and was going to stay with her sister for the summer and said she was aloud to invite someone to bring with her and asked if I wanted to come and meet people from the set of happy days LoL I declined and I have never found out if she was being legit This was 1978 in Red bluff CA

[@layla-bw4xu]

Andy is a legend I won't think the same of Howard

[@poeticposturing3850]

This was my favorite show growing up. And my favorite adult years were the one's I spent living in small towns.

[@sbodolus]

Don Knotts played his character brilliantly!! I never really liked Andy, I felt like he over acted most of the time

[@debbieparker2217]

This was too sad to read about I cant believe it. This was one of my favorites too. Im approaching 73 in Aug

[@rogercpate4386]

Love the aerial shot of St Andrews University in my hometown, fished and rode bike on the many sidewalks there as a kid, later as a student there, always has a soft spot for St Andrews

[@tomcondon6169]

I saw Ron Howard playing the son of a single Mother who was dating a man. I recall he had a rectal thermometer temperature taken, frequent back then.

[@1994jhg]

One of the greatest shows ever.

[@phyllislowther5732]

He can thank Andy for his career.I doubt he would have gone very far if it wasn’t for Andy.

[@richardingraham-yy4sz]

I definitely like the show, I would like to see Juanita Barney's other girlfriend that works in the diner they never did show her.

[@gusjackson3658]

A completely white town as I recall.

[@ChrisWhitley-tx1oz]

Yeah it has come out that a lot of people didn’t like Andy. On the surface he exuded a jolly good humor. But behind the scenes he was a prick.

[@thenoseknows9391]

Andy and Don had a great relationship 💯 Andy was at Don's death bed 💯😭😭👍🏽👍🏽

[@mrsnakesmrnot8499]

It is called ACTING, and Ron’s acting fooled the audience. Now, the characters that the actors portrayed will always love each other.

[@deewesthill1213]

I almost never watched The Andy Griffith Show. In the 1980s i was absolutely hooked on the famous long running radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion" about "Lake Wobegon", a fictional small town in Minnesota. It was always really funny. If i started watching this TV comedy, i'd certainly get hooked too. Also, in the 70s to 80s, i had a 1967 Ford Galaxy 500. It was a gas hog.

[@malkaz9167]

I know people who worked with Andy. They said he was a mean man.

[@indigowolf556]

I think Ron Howard as a director and a movie producer is awesome. I've lived all the movies that he's done. When I was younger because I'm 63 now, I remember watching Andy Griffith along with Mayberry RFD and thought that would be a fun town to live in. I always thought Andy Griffith was a very good-looking guy back in the day. I don't know about Ron Howard hating Opie since that's the character he plays.

[@francesbernard2445]

Pretty good record when it comes to good communication Ron. Must have been sometimes difficult to pull it off well enough to be in that game for 8 seasons. 8 seasons while he was watching how to be a director instead.

[@michaelmcclary8054]

Mr. Howard & I have the same Birthday!- Michael McClary, Professor of Trumpet 🎺, Georgia Perimeter College and GSU 🎉❤❤😅

[@Unknown17]

"Aunt Bea" Bavier always ticked me off. She's one of these people who went from zero to famous because of one single role, then all they do is scream and protest that the role was somehow holding them back or making their lives difficult. I feel like people should shut up and be grateful for what that show or role has done for them, instead of getting a swelled head.

[@daviddiehl-gy2sq]

And without Opie, Ron Howard would still be a Nobody.