EXCLUSIVE: A famous face is about to show up on the streets of The Bold and the Beautiful.

Hollywood vet Clint Howard has been cast to play a homeless man named Tom who provides pivotal clues to a mystery.

Howard begins taping today. His episodes will air April 26, and April 29.

Together with his brother Ron, Howard wrote The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family in 2021. The NYT bestseller chronicles their rise from child stars to Hollywood icons.

Howard started out on The Andy Griffith Show with his brother before breaking out on his own in Gentle Ben in 1967. He’s amassed numerous TV credits, and has appeared in most of his brother’s movies. He last appeared as Commander Buck Martinez on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

The Bold and the Beautiful will celebrate its 37th anniversary on CBS on March 23. The Bell serial is the No. 2 ranked soap in daytime and has been renewed through the fall of 2025.

Bradley P. Bell is the Executive Producer and Head Writer.