Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ron Howard learned the brutal limits of TV make-believe when he was handed an ice cream cone on the set of The Andy Griffith Show.

Rush also landed a role in the film ‘Man of a Thousand Faces’ after James Cagney discovered him eating lunch at the Universal ...

Dennis Rush, best known as Howie Pruitt on The Andy Griffith Show, died on May 9, 2026 at age 74. In a Mayberry Days conversation, he said he thought no one would remember him. He told Tanya Jones he ...