Who played Opie on the show named for the star of the film Angel in My Pocket?
Howard
Title: The Jimmy Show
Passage: The Jimmy Show is a 2001 drama written and directed by Frank Whaley, based on the Off-Broadway play "Veins and Thumbtacks" by Jonathan Marc Sherman. The film stars Whaley, Carla Gugino, and Ethan Hawke.
Title: Ron Howard
Passage: Howard first came to prominence playing young Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years and later playing teenager Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for seven years. He appeared in the musical film The Music Man (1962), the comedy film The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), the coming of age film American Graffiti (1973), the western film The Shootist (1976), and the comedy film Grand Theft Auto (1977), which he also directed.
Title: Give 'em Hell, Harry!
Passage: Give 'em Hell, Harry! is a biographical play and 1975 film, written by playwright Samuel Gallu. Both the play and film are a one-man show about former President of the United States Harry S. Truman. "Give 'em Hell, Harry!" stars James Whitmore, and was directed by Steve Binder and Peter H. Hunt.
Title: Angel Unchained
Passage: Angel Unchained (also known as Hell's Angels Unchained) is a 1970 American action film directed by Lee Madden for American International Pictures and starring Don Stroud as the title character Angel. It was released in the United States on September 2, 1970.
Title: Angel in My Pocket
Passage: Angel in My Pocket is a 1969 American comedy film starring Andy Griffith and directed by Alan Rafkin. One of three films originally planned by Universal Pictures to star Griffith, it also features Lee Meriwether, Jerry Van Dyke, Kay Medford, Henry Jones, Edgar Buchanan, and Gary Collins. The film has never been released to home video in any format.
Title: It Happened in New York
Passage: It Happened in New York is a 1935 American musical comedy film directed by Alan Crosland and starring Gertrude Michael, Heather Angel and Lyle Talbot. It is based on a play "Bagdad on the Hudson" by Ward Morehouse and Jean Dalrymple. A New York taxi driver is hired as a bodyguard to a film star, whose manager is always involving her in publicity stunts.
Title: Cybill
Passage: "Cybill" takes place in Los Angeles and focuses on the character of a somewhat faded actress, Cybill Sheridan (played by Cybill Shepherd), who, because of her age, had been relegated to playing character roles, bit parts, and TV commercials. Also featured are her daughters: headstrong Zoey (Witt) and uptight Rachel (Pfeiffer), two ex-husbands: Ira (Rosenberg) and Jeff (Wopat), and her hard-drinking best friend Maryann (Baranski). Due to the show's premise, many episodes featured a show-within-a-show format, showing Cybill Sheridan playing a variety of other characters in her various film and TV acting roles.
Title: Women Aren't Angels
Passage: Women Aren't Angels is a 1943 black and white British comedy film directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring Aldwych Theatre farceurs Robertson Hare and Alfred Drayton, with Polly Ward and Joyce Heron. It was made at Welwyn Studios and based on a 1941 play of the same title by Vernon Sylvaine.
Title: Headmaster (TV series)
Passage: "Headmaster" marked the return to series television of Griffith, whose previous eponymous show had been one of CBS's major hits of the 1960s prior to his voluntary departure and a program which was still in production (as "Mayberry R.F.D."), when "Headmaster" was launched. Griffith had just signed a three-picture deal with Universal Pictures but was so disappointed with the first film in the contract, the rural comedy "Angel in My Pocket", that the two parties never made the other two films and he quickly returned to television.
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