He arranged to take his wife on a six-week business trip to the United States. By 1939, rising hostilities against Jews led his father to conclude that it was time to leave Germany. Winkler's parents, Ilse Anna Marie ( née Hadra) and businessman Harry Irving Winkler were German Jews living in Berlin during the rise of Nazi Germany. From an interview with Terry Gross, NPR in 2019. Henry Winkler describing how his parents escaped from Nazi Germany. I have the actual letters from the government each time my father requested to stay a little longer, and they would say yes. And the jewelry that he encased in chocolate, he sold when he came out of Ellis Island into New York and was able to start a new life here, slowly but surely. I have told this story – that he took his mother's jewelry, bought a box of chocolate, melted the chocolate down, put the pieces of jewelry in the chocolate box, melted – poured the chocolate over the jewelry, put the box under his arm, so when he was stopped by the Nazis and they said, are you taking anything of value out of Germany, he said, no, you can open every bag we've got nothing. He got a six-week visa from Germany to come and do work in New York but was expected to come right back. He also wrote two memoirs, The Other Side of Henry Winkler: My Story (1976), and I've Never Met an Idiot on the River (2011).Įarly life 1939–1945: Family history
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In 2003, he drew upon his childhood struggles with dyslexia to co-write the Hank Zipzer series of children's books, which he then adapted into the BBC adaptation (in which Winkler appears as Mr. He was a member of the main cast of the NBC reality series Better Late Than Never (2016–2018). The latter earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
Saperstein in Parks and Recreation (2013–2015), and Gene Cousineau in Barry (2018–2023). He also found a career resurgence in television portraying humorous characters such as Barry Zuckerkorn in Arrested Development (2003–2019), Eddie R. Winkler acted in films such as Heroes (1977), Night Shift (1982), Scream (1996), The Waterboy (1998), Holes (2003), The French Dispatch (2021), and Black Adam (2022). He then helped develop the original ABC series MacGyver and directed Memories of Me (1988) and Cop and a Half (1993). After getting cast in a small role in The Mary Tyler Moore Show, he burst into stardom playing the role of Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the ABC sitcom Happy Days (1974-1984). Winkler studied theater at both Emerson College and the Yale School of Drama, and spent a year and half with the Yale Repertory Theater. Winkler's accolades include three Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Critics Choice Awards.
After rising to fame as Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on the American television series Happy Days, Winkler has distinguished himself as a character actor for roles on stage and screen. Henry Franklin Winkler OBE (born October 30, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, author, producer, and director.
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