He was only four when fate tapped him on the shoulder—literally. A quiet lunch with his archivist father at Universal turned into a life-changing moment when James Cagney himself said he needed “a little boy” for Man of a Thousand Faces. From there, Dennis Rush stepped into America’s living rooms, eventually becoming Howie Pruitt, one of Opie Taylor’s friends on The Andy Griffith Show, during television’s most cherished era.
`Dennis Rush, child actor in ‘Man of a Thousand Faces’ and ‘The Andy Griffith Show,’ dies at 74
