ABOUT JEAN SPEEGLE HOWARD
Ron Howard 's mother who had many TV appearances and played a role in Married... with Children . She also appeared in the 1996 film Matilda .
She appeared on stage and toured with a children's theatre company.
She had what's probably the second most popular line in Apollo 13 : "If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it."
She had children Ron Howard and his brother Clint with her husband Rance Howard .
She was on several episodes of Married... with Children, which starred Ed O'Neill .
