Ayyyyyyyy, Winkler!
"To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together."
Henry Franklin Winkler (born October 30, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, director, producer, and author best known for his early role as Arthur "The Fonz" / "Fonzie" Fonzarelli in Happy Days. Later on, Winkler became known as a producer, overseeing such shows as classic adventure series MacGyver (and its 2016 reboot).
He is Richard Belzer's cousin. His son Max Winkler is a director. His verified Twitter account is over here.
Film Roles:
- An American Christmas Carol
- Black Adam (2022)
- Click
- Heroes
- Holes
- Katherine
- Little Nicky
- Night Shift
- Scream (1996)
- Target For Rage
- The Waterboy
- You Don't Mess with the Zohan
- On the Count of Three
- The French Dispatch
Television Roles:
- Arrested Development
- Barry (2018 Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series)
- Childrens Hospital
- Hank Zipzer (creator)
- Dead Man's Gun (various, 2 episodes)
- The Practice (Dr. Henry Olson, 3 episodes)
- Happy Days
- Monty (1994) (also producer)
- The Hollywood Squares (co-producer and occasional guest announcer, 2002-04 H2 run)
- NUMB3RS (Roger Bloom, 2008-2009 3 episodes)
- Royal Pains (2010-2016, 25 episodes)
- Parks and Recreation
- WinTuition (creator)
Voice Acting Roles:
- All Hail King Julien
- Asterix and the Big Fight (American dub)
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold
- Bob's Burgers
- Bojack Horseman
- DuckTales (2017)
- Extinct (2021)
- The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2015)
- Human Resources (2022)
- Inside Job (2021)
- Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil
- The Legend of Vox Machina
- Monsters at Work
- Ozzy & Drix
- Puppy Dog Pals
- Robot Chicken
- Rugrats (2021)
- SCOOB!
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Welcome to the Wayne
- Where's Waldo? (2019)
- Vampirina
Books:
- Hank Zipzer book series (collaboration with Lin Oliver)
- I've Never Met an Idiot on the River
Tropes associated with Winkler:
- Leslie Nielsen Syndrome: He's done more comedy later in life.
- Playing Against Type: In a dramatic role and as a pedophile in On the Count of Three.
- Self-Deprecation: His appearance as Ambush Bug in Batman: The Brave and the Bold is loaded with this as Bug was trying to stop Bat-Mite from invoking Jumping the Shark and get it cancelled — a term spawn of the infamous scene of the Fonz jumping over a shark while water skiing and wearing his trademark jacket.
