Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before he was a revered director or even Richie Cunningham on Happy Days, Ron Howard was just a little redheaded boy named Opie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story is simple, but devastating in its quiet way: Young Opie, playing with his slingshot, accidentally kills a mother bird.

Opie Taylor is the quintessential good kid: as the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show, Opie listens to his dad, does his best to follow the rules, and embodies the youthful innocence ...

Opie's back! Hollywood director Ron Howard revives his '60s boyhood role as Opie Taylor on the "Andy Griffith Show" in a new ad urging people to vote for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.