what movies did ron howard do?
Apollo 13 A Beautiful Mind Curious George Happy Days Cocoon From the Earth to the Moon
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 In 1964 – 65 , Keating produced Perversion for Profit , a film featuring announcer George Putnam . It was a survey of then @-@ available prurient and obscene materials , and asserted that pornography led to moral decay . It , along with two lesser @-@ known films produced or distributed by CDL , was screened frequently throughout the country and remained in print for a long time . 

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 Howard appeared in the 1994 basketball film Hoop Dreams . He had a small role in the television drama The West Wing , appearing in the 1999 episode " The Crackpots and These Women " as Rodney Grant , a former Duke basketball player who served on Josiah Bartlet 's Council on Fitness and helped him win a game against his staff . 

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 Rob Minkoff entered negotiations to take the director 's position in October 2001 , and Gwyn Lurie was hired to start from scratch on a new script in February 2002 . Lurie said she would adapt the original book and ignore the 1971 film adaptation . Dahl 's estate championed Lurie after being impressed with her work on another Dahl adaptation , a live @-@ action adaptation of The BFG , for Paramount Pictures , which was never made ( Paramount distributed the earlier 1971 film version of Charlie , and later sold the rights to WB ) . In April 2002 , Martin Scorsese was involved with the film , albeit briefly , but opted to direct The Aviator instead . Warner Bros. president Alan F. Horn wanted Tom Shadyac to direct Jim Carrey as Willy Wonka , believing the duo could make Charlie and the Chocolate Factory relevant to mainstream audiences , but Liccy Dahl opposed this . 

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 The film was followed by two films and a TV series , all prequels based on novels by Thomas Harris . 

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 Ideas for a Conan film were proposed as early as 1970 . A concerted effort by executive producer Edward R. Pressman and associate producer Edward Summer to produce the film started in 1975 . It took them two years to obtain the film rights , after which they recruited Schwarzenegger for the lead role and Oliver Stone to draft a script . Pressman lacked capital for the endeavor , and in 1979 , after having his proposals for investments rejected by the major studios , he sold the project to Dino De Laurentiis . Milius was appointed as director and he rewrote Stone 's script . The final screenplay integrated scenes from Howard 's stories and from films such as Kwaidan and Seven Samurai . 
