Henry Winkler
Acting
- Born:
- 1945-10-30
- Place of birth:
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Henry Franklin Winkler (born October 30, 1945) is an American actor, director, producer, and author. Winkler grew up in New York and was a student in the Yale School of Drama. Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days. "The Fonz," a leather-clad greaser and auto mechanic, started out as a minor character at the show's beginning but had achieved top billing by the time the show ended. He also portrayed Jack Dunne in Heroes (1977), Andy in the Carl Reiner film The One and Only (1978), and Chuck Lumley in Ron Howard's Night Shift (1982). Winkler has evolved into a character actor, portraying roles such as the high school principal Arthur Himbry in Scream, Coach Klein in Adam Sandler's The Waterboy, Barry Zuckerkorn in Arrested Development, Sy Mittleman in Childrens Hospital, Dr. Saperstein in Parks and Recreation, Mr. Rock in the Hank Zipzer BBC series, Eddie R. Lawson in Royal Pains, Fritz in Monsters at Work, Uncle Joe in The French Dispatch, Al Pratt (Uncle Al) in Black Adam, and Gene Cousineau in Barry.
Known For
Filmography
Hexed
Rolling Loud: The Movie
The Patrick Star Show: Week of Stars!
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America
Lightworkers
Normal
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Hazardous History with Henry Winkler
The Final Cut
Everybody's Live with John Mulaney
Good Men
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Sly
The Family Stallone
Chanshi
Reindeer in Here
Killing Me Softly with His Songs
Black Adam
Batwheels
Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?
Sherri
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Starting Now: the Making of Barry
Loot
On the Count of Three
Family Squares
The Legend of Vox Machina
Inside Job
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
American Horror Stories
History of the Sitcom
The Patrick Star Show
Monsters at Work
Rugrats
Extinct
More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story
AGFA's Special Christmas Special
Pink Skies Ahead
Close Enough
Scoob!
The Happy Days of Garry Marshall
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Stars in the House
Medical Police
The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU
Suzi Q
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Lights Out with David Spade
Where's Waldo?
Pizza: A Love Story
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
Barry
Welcome to the Wayne
Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You
DuckTales
All Hail King Julien: Exiled
Sandy Wexler
Heroes Manufactured
Hank Zipzer's Christmas Catastrophe
PRISM
Better Late Than Never
Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
All Hail King Julien
Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero
Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials
BoJack Horseman
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Hank Zipzer
Uncle Grandpa
Hollywood Game Night
Drunk History
The Arrested Development Documentary Project
Teen Titans Go!
LEGO Hero Factory: Brain Attack
1600 Penn
Here Comes the Boom
Comedy Bang! Bang!
LEGO Hero Factory: Savage Planet
Adventures of Serial Buddies
New Girl
Up All Night
Running Mates
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
LEGO Hero Factory: Ordeal of Fire
Bubble Guppies
Bob's Burgers
Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored
LEGO Hero Factory: Rise of the Rookies
Conan
LEGO Hero Factory
Group Sex
Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
We Are the People We've Been Waiting For
Angela and Friends
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Royal Pains
Sit Down Shut Up
Parks and Recreation
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Childrens Hospital
Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh
Shatner's Raw Nerve
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Celebrity Juice
You Don't Mess with the Zohan
A Plumm Summer
The Thick of It
Heckler
I Could Never Be Your Woman
Rachael Ray
Click
Unbeatable Harold
The Kid & I
Berkeley
Out of Practice
8 Out of 10 Cats
Robot Chicken
Raging Bull: Outside the Ring
American Dad!
Numb3rs
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
The Tony Danza Show
Fronterz
Weezer: Video Capture Device - Treasures from the Vault 1991-2002
Arrested Development
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Clifford's Puppy Days
Duck Dodgers
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
Holes
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Ozzy & Drix
American Idol
Richard & Judy
Crossing Jordan
Good Day Live
Little Nicky
Battery Park
Down to You
Ennis' Gift
Dill Scallion
Third Watch
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Teen Choice Awards
SpongeBob SquarePants
So Weird
P.U.N.K.S
Television: The First Fifty Years
The Waterboy
Ground Control
South Park
The View
Hostage High
Dad's Week Off
The Practice
King of the Hill
Scream
Access Hollywood
Blue's Clues
E! True Hollywood Story
TFI Friday
A Child Is Missing
The Drew Carey Show
One Christmas
Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Monty
The Only Way Out
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
GMTV
Vicki!
The Larry Sanders Show
Sightings
Pebble Mill
Absolute Strangers
Voices That Care
The Simpsons
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Two Daddies?
This Morning
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Happily Ever After
MacGyver
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
Donald Duck's 50th Birthday
Steve Martin Live!
Strong Kids, Safe Kids
Nature
The Mork & Mindy / Laverne & Shirley / Fonz Hour
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
Night Shift
I Love Liberty
Night of 100 Stars
The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
An American Christmas Carol
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Sitcom: The Adventures of Garry Marshall
Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy
Mickey's 50
Mork & Mindy
The One and Only
Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
Heroes
Neil Diamond : Live At the Greek Theatre 1976
Laverne & Shirley
Katherine
People's Choice Awards
Dinah!
The Lords of Flatbush
Crazy Joe
Happy Days
Nightmare
The Bob Newhart Show
The Great American Dream Machine
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Mike Douglas Show
Tony Awards
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Oscars
The Emmy Awards
Encore
Old Pals
Grown Ups 3