Photo: Andreas Laszlo Konrath for New York Magazine Ron Howard began his Hollywood career in 1959, appearing in Anatole Litvak’s Cold War drama The Journey, his first credited role , when he was 4 years old. In the 1960s, he became a TV star as Opie Taylor, the young son of Sheriff Andy Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show. As the old studio system was dying, the New Hollywood era was emerging; Howard found himself in the middle of it with a starring role in George Lucas’s 1973 sleeper hit American