Henry Winkler has been famous since Happy Days first started 50 years ago. Now, he’s heading to Yorkshire – a place he already knows better than you might think. The TV star talks to John Blow.
If anyone was a real life Fonz in the 1970s when Happy Days became a hit TV show, it would have been Bruce Springsteen. Leather jacket, a shock of dark hair and an insouciant gaze into the camera. “It’s the truth,” says Henry Winkler, the man who shot to fame playing the character. The subject comes up because the evening before our video call, Winkler posted a selfie with The Boss, having seen his show at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles.
One episode your jaw drops to the ground, in the next episode, you are cheering the same guy.” Winkler was born shortly after the end of the Second World War on October 30, 1945, in New York City – his German Jewish parents, Harry and Ilse, had fled Berlin in 1939. In his late 20s, Winkler achieved fame as Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli on the American series Happy Days, which ran from 1974 to 1984. In his book, he writes about the Emmy for Barry being a full circle moment.
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