![]() ![]() “Of course my mom said, ‘oh absolutely,’” he said. She asked if Dapo would like to audition. “Lola Moore,” the woman who would become Dapo’s agent, “was on the bus that day.” ![]() “My mom was on the bus showing pictures of her kids,” he said. ![]() His family had moved from Pontiac, Michigan to California when he was five. That’s a far cry from the whiny Winkler, who tries to convince Opie he shouldn’t have to work for his 25-cent allowance.ĭapo was thrust into the entertainment industry at a young age. “I’m 64 now and I’ve got 53 years on the books,” said Dapo, who lives in Denver, Colorado, with his wife of 45 years. He kept it up until retirement at age 60. Though he left the entertainment industry when he was about 14 years old, (“I cried uncle,” he said, “It was time to go,”) he juggled life as a touring musician with day jobs such as steel framing and running a printing press. The actor was about 11 years old when the episode was produced in 1963, and by then, the child actor had already been working full time for several years. It would be a mistake to confuse Ronnie Dapo with the character he portrayed in “Opie and the Spoiled Kid,” the first of three episodes of “The Andy Griffith Show” in which he appears.ĭapo played Arnold Winkler, who schools Opie (unsuccessfully) in the art of the temper tantrum and parental manipulation. ![]()
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