The British actor Ronald Howard was born in Norwood, London, England, in 1918. He and his younger sister Leslie Ruth Howard were raised by their mother Ruth Evelyn Martin and their father, the renowned actor 'Leslie Howard played Dr. Watson. Boyishly handsome with a pleasant demeanor, Howard continued in film and television until the mid-1970s; however, he never caught on with audiences as well as his father had, prompting him to put aside his acting career to run an art gallery. In the 1980s, he wrote a biography of his father.
Son of the actor Leslie Howard , with whom he appeared in Pimpernel Smith . Nephew of actor Arthur Howard , cousin of actor Alan Howard. In the 1980s British TV "Sherlock Holmes" series, one of the actors playing Dr. John Watson was Edward Hardwicke, the son of acclaimed British actor Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
