Here's Hank, the New York Times bestselling series written by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver, is the perfect series for the transitional reader.

• Henry Winkler Author Hank Zipzer
• Henry Winkler Children
• Henry Winkler Children's Books

What were your own school days like?
I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school and eventually I graduated. But after all that at no point in my professional life, from June 30 1970 when I graduated to May 2014, not one human being has said the word hypotenuse to me! So did I really have to feel so bad and struggle so much and think I was so stupid for so long? I really feel we have teach children how they learn not what we think they should learn at school.

Henry Winkler is an American actor and Tv personality. His age is 74 years old. Henry Winkler estimated net worth is around $35 million. His wife name is Stacey Weitzman and shared 2 kids. He had published many books. He had played in many movies. His height is 5 feet 6 inches. Know more bio, wiki, twitter. May 26, 2014. An interview with the award-winning children's book writer of the Hank Zipzer series and dyslexia awareness campaigner – who adults of certain age will forever know as The Fonz.

Are the teachers in your Hank Zipzer books Miss Adolf and Mr Rock based on real people?
Yes. Miss Adolf is based on my real teacher and she was a horrible teacher. Mr Rock (the character I play in the TV version of my Hank Zipzer books) is based on my real teacher and he was the man who said to me 'Winkler (teachers called kids by their surnames in those days) when you get out of school you're going to be okay'. Those words meant everything to me.

Why did you decide to write the Hank Zipzer books?
It was an accident. My agent suggested it to me and at first I was shocked, me write a book? I thought I couldn't do it, I thought I was too stupid to write a book. Even though I was a famous actor, I still thought I was stupid because I'd been told that so many times at school. It was imprinted on me and that's why I think it's so important that parents, teachers, librarians, carers don't even joke about a child being stupid. All children know when something is wrong and they can't understand something – they never need someone to tell them they're stupid. They need help in solving the problem. I wrote the books mainly to make the reader laugh first and they just happen to be based on someone I know very well, me.

Do you have a favourite of your books
I have now written 26 books, 18 in the Hank Zipzer series and four in the Ghost Buddy series. I don't have a favourite, they are like my children how can I have a favourite?

You write with a partner Lin Oliver, how does that work?
Lin sits at the computer and I talk, she types. Lin reads it back to me and we argue over it. If if doesn't make us laugh then it doesn't make the book. When I'm writing all the emotions of Hank come through me, I remember in so much detail what it's like to be a kid.

Did you have a favourite book when you were young?
No. I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made me nervous. Now I know you can travel to the bottom of the ocean or to outer space or anywhere in between without leaving your armchair and I'm so, so sorry I couldn't read when I was younger. Now I read thrillers and every one I've read is a triumph for me. They are lined up on my shelf like trophies. I also read books to my grandchildren who are aged four and two but reading is still difficult for me. I read very slowly.

What special steps do you take to make it possible for children who have dyslexia or have trouble reading to read your books?
We think about those kids all the time, although all types of readers read my books. One thing we do is have a lot of white space in the books. Sometimes a chapter is 12 pages long, but sometimes it's a paragraph long. Sometimes it's a list. If a child has a hard time reading, they can still read a whole chapter of my books. Kids who have never read before, reluctant readers, can read my books.

What advice would you give your 10-year-old self?
Henry: you are not defined by school. No matter how difficult it might be it has nothing to do with how brilliant you are. Your grades do not define how brilliant you are. Good thinking and a good thought is why you are smart.

You are very famous from playing The Fonz in Happy Days to adults of a certain age, does it bother you that kids don't know who the Fonz is?
No, not at all! In fact lots of kids know me as Mr Rock now from Hank Zipzer but their parents can be particularly ferocious about getting a picture of me, I guess that doesn't happen to other authors so much! The funny thing is kids don't always know me but they often write to me and say how do I know them so well? That makes me proud!

Henry Franklin WinklerOBE (born October 30, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, director, producer, and author.^[1] He played the role of greaserArthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli, the breakout character of the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days.^[2] He also starred as Sy Mittleman on Adult Swim's Childrens Hospital,^[3] and as Eddie R. Lawson on USA Networks's Royal Pains. Winkler also had notable guest-starring roles on Arrested Development as Barry Zuckerkorn and Dr. Saperstein on Parks and Recreation.^[4] In 2018, he began appearing as Gene Cousineau on the HBO comedy Barry.

For his role on Happy Days, Winkler won two Golden Globe Awards and earned three Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. For Barry, Winkler won his first Primetime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. He also was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for his role on The Practice and has won two Daytime Emmy Awards.^{[citation needed]}

• 2Career
  • 2.1Acting
  • 2.2Theater
  • 2.3Author
• 4Filmography
• 5Other work
• 9Further reading

Early life[edit]

Henry Franklin Winkler was born on October 30, 1945, on the West Side of Manhattan,^[5][6] the son of homemaker Ilse Anna Marie (née Hadra; 1913–2002) and lumber import-export^[7] company president Harry Irving Winkler (1903–1995). His parents were German Jews who emigrated from Berlin to the U.S. in 1939, on the eve of World War II. Winkler said that his parents came to the U.S. for a six-week business trip, but knew they were never going back.^[5] His father smuggled the only assets the family had left (family jewels disguised as a box of chocolates that he carried under his arm).^[8] Although they did not keep kosher, Winkler was raised in the traditions of Conservative Judaism,^[9][10] but said that he was not religious as an adult. The family attended Congregation Habonim, where his mother ran the Judaica shop. His parents were founding members of the temple.^[5] Winkler has a sister named Beatrice.^[8]

Winkler has said that he was very anxious as a child because of his undiagnosed dyslexia, and that he was considered to be 'slow, stupid, not living up to my potential'. He also said that his relationship with his parents was strained, due at least partially to their attitude towards his undiagnosed dyslexia.^[11] As his father spoke 11 languages and could do math in his head, he did not understand Winkler's problems at school, and why Winkler would celebrate a C grade. His father often said to him in German 'Du bist ein dummer Hund', which means 'you are a dumbdog' and often punished him for his difficulties in school.^[5] Winkler attended P.S. 87 on W. 78th Street which remains in operation today, and then graduated in 1963 from McBurney School, which was located in Manhattan's Upper West Side neighborhood.^[12]

Winkler said he did not graduate with his class because of his learning disability and problems with a geometry class, which he finally passed after attending summer school.^[1] In 1967, Winkler received his BA from Emerson College.^[7] At Emerson, he was a member of the Alpha Pi Theta Fraternity. In 1970, Winkler earned an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. In 1972, Winkler returned to New York City, auditioned for, and was cast in, 42 Seconds from Broadway.^[13][7] In 1978, Emerson awarded Winkler an honorary DHL. He has also received an honorary DHL from Austin College. During his high school and college years, he studied in Lausanne, Switzerland, and worked in a lumber mill in a small German town.^[14][15]

Career[edit]

Acting[edit]

Winkler said he had wanted to be an actor from the time he was a young child.^[5]

Winkler's first job on television was as an extra on a game show in New York. He received $10 for the role.^[5]

After working in theater and getting fired from a play in Washington, Winkler returned to New York City and supported himself by appearing in television commercials, one year doing more than 30. He was able to support himself with the commercial work so he could do theater for free at Manhattan Theater Club.^[5]

He also appeared in 1973 in season four of The Mary Tyler Moore Show in the episode 'The Dinner Party' as Rhoda's date, Steve Waldman, and in episodes of The Bob Newhart Show and Rhoda.

Happy Days[edit]

Although Winkler had already shot the film The Lords of Flatbush, he was relatively unknown. In 1973, a year before that film was released, producer Tom Miller was instrumental in Winkler getting cast for the role of Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli, nicknamed 'The Fonz' or 'Fonzie', in Happy Days, which first aired in January 1974.^[16]

For Happy Days, director/producer Garry Marshall originally had in mind a completely opposite physical presence. Marshall sought to cast a hunky, blonde, Italian model-type male in the role of Fonzie, intended as a stupid foil to the real star, Ron Howard. However, when Winkler interpreted the role in auditions, Marshall immediately snapped him up. According to Winkler, 'The Fonz was everybody I wasn't. He was everybody I wanted to be.'^[17]

Winkler's character, though remaining very much a rough-hewn outsider, gradually became the focus of the show as time passed (in particular after the departure of Ron Howard).^[18] Initially, ABC executives did not want to see the Fonz wearing leather, thinking the character would appear to be a criminal. The first 13 episodes show Winkler wearing two different kinds of windbreaker jackets, one of which was green. As Winkler said in a TV Land interview: 'It's hard to look cool in a green windbreaker'. Marshall argued with the executives about the jacket. In the end, a compromise was made: Winkler could only wear the leather jacket in scenes with his motorcycle. And, from that point on, the Fonz was never without his motorcycle, until season 2. Happy Days ended its run in 1984.

1960s and 1970s[edit]

From 1968 to 1972, Winkler appeared in 14 Yale Repertory Theater productions, including Shakespeare's Coriolanus (May 1968) and Macbeth (February 1971), Gogol's The Government Inspector (February 1970), the world premiere of Gimpel the Fool (an Isaac Bashevis Singer adaptation, October 1970) and Two by Brecht and Weill: The Little Mahagonny and The Seven Sins (May–June 1971 and January 1972).^{[19][citation needed]}

During his decade on Happy Days, Winkler also starred in a number of movies, including The Lords of Flatbush (1974), playing a troubled Vietnam veteran in Heroes (1977), The One and Only (1978), and An American Christmas Carol (TV movie, 1979).

Winkler was also narrator and executive producer of Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?, a documentary film about Dorothy and Bob DeBolt, an American couple who adopted 14 children, some of whom are severely disabled war orphans (in addition to raising Dorothy's five biological children and Bob's biological daughter). The film won an Academy Award for Best Feature-length Documentary in 1978,^[20] as well as the Directors Guild of America Award and the Humanitas Award for producer and director John Korty in 1979. A 50-minute version of the film shown on ABC in December 1978, earned a 1979 Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Program and an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Program for Winkler, Korty, and producers Warren Lockhart and Dan McCann.

Winkler was also one of the hosts of the 1979 Music for UNICEF Concert.^[21]

1980s[edit]

After Happy Days ended, Winkler concentrated on producing and directing. Within months of the program's cancellation, he and John Rich had collaborated to establish Winkler-Rich Productions; whenever Rich or Ann Daniels was uninvolved, his company was called Fair Dinkum Productions. He chose the name in a nod to Australia, where 'fair dinkum' is a common Australian term suggesting a person or thing is 'direct,' 'honest,' 'fair,' or 'authentic'. He produced several television shows, including MacGyver,So Weird, and Mr. Sunshine, with Rich; Sightings, in which Daniels was involved; the 1985 made-for-television film Scandal Sheet, for which he was executive producer; and the game shows Wintuition and Hollywood Squares (the latter from 2002–2004, occasionally serving as a sub-announcer).

Winkler appeared in Night Shift, a 1982 American comedy film directed by Ron Howard.

He also directed several movies including the Billy Crystal movie Memories of Me (1988) and Cop and a Half (1993) with Burt Reynolds.^{[citation needed]}

1990s[edit]

As the 1990s began, Winkler returned to acting. In 1991, he starred in the controversial made-for-television film Absolute Strangers, as a husband forced to make a decision regarding his comatose wife and his unborn baby. In 1994, he returned to TV with the short-lived comedy series Monty on Fox and co-starred with Katharine Hepburn in the holiday TV movie One Christmas.^[22]

In 1996, his scene-stealing, uncredited role in Scream (as foul-mouthed high school principal Arthur Himbry) thrust his onscreen career back into the mainstream. Shortly afterwards, Adam Sandler asked Winkler to appear in The Waterboy (1998).

In 1999, he became an executive producer for the Disney Channel original series So Weird. He would later make a special guest appearance in the second season's Halloween episode titled 'Boo'.

2000s[edit]

The Waterboy sparked a fast friendship, and ongoing professional relationship, between Sandler and Winkler. Winkler would go on to appear in at least three other Sandler films: Little Nicky (2000, where he plays himself, covered in bees), Click (2006, as the protagonist's father), and You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008, again playing himself). He also had small roles in movies such as Down to You (2000), Holes (2003), and I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007).

Winkler had a recurring role as incompetent lawyer Barry Zuckerkorn in the Fox Television comedy Arrested Development. In one episode, his character hopped over a dead shark lying on a pier,^[23] a reference to his role in the origin of the phrase, from a two-part episode of Happy Days, 'jumping the shark'. After that episode, Winkler, in interviews, stated that he was the only person to have 'jumped the shark' twice.^{[citation needed]}

When Winkler moved to CBS for one season to star in 2005–06's Out of Practice, his role as the Bluth family lawyer on Arrested Development was taken over by Happy Days co-star Scott Baio in the fall of 2005, shortly before the acclaimed but Nielsen-challenged show ceased production.

Winkler has guest-starred on television series such as Numb3rs, The Bob Newhart Show (as Miles Lascoe, a parolee just out of jail—he was in jail for armed robbery, twice), South Park, The Practice, The Drew Carey Show, The Simpsons (playing a member of a biker gang—in one scene, he calls Marge 'Mrs. S', a reference to Fonzie calling Happy Days matriarch Marion Cunningham 'Mrs. C'), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Third Watch, Arrested Development, Crossing Jordan, Family Guy, King of the Hill,Blue's Clues, and Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil.

The Weezer video for 1994's 'Buddy Holly' edited period footage of Henry Winkler as the Fonz, as well as a double shot from behind to create the illusion that Fonzie and other characters were watching Weezer as they performed in Arnold's restaurant. He appeared on KTTV's Good Day L.A. and in one appearance, while substituting for Steve Edwards, Winkler reunited with fellow Happy Days cast member Marion Ross. Winkler made a cameo appearance in the band Say Anything's video for 'Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too'.^[24][25]

A close friend of actor John Ritter, the two led a Broadway ensemble cast in Neil Simon's The Dinner Party in 2000. Winkler was reunited as a guest star on Ritter's sitcom 8 Simple Rules (for Dating my Teenage Daughter) in 2003 by Ritter's request. On September 11, Ritter became ill during filming, and unexpectedly died. A stunned, grief-stricken Winkler was interviewed by Mary Hart of Entertainment Tonight and various other entertainment news sources.

In 2008, he appeared in two Christmas movies, in the Hallmark Channel movie The Most Wonderful Time of the Year as a retired cop who plays matchmaker between his niece and a drifter he befriends, and in Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh as the judge who orders Drake and Josh to give a young girl 'the best Christmas ever' or be sent to jail. In 2009, Winkler provided the voice of Willard Deutschebog, a suicidal German teacher, in the Fox comedy series, Sit Down, Shut Up.^[26]

2010s[edit]

In March 2010, Winkler was cast in a recurring role on USA Network's Royal Pains, as Hank and Evan's ne'er-do-well father Eddy. Winkler joined the cast of Adult Swim's television adaptation of Rob Corddry's web series Childrens Hospital, playing a stereotypically feckless hospital administrator. In late September 2010, Winkler provided the voice of Professor Nathaniel Zib in the Lego Hero Factory mini-series, Rise of the Rookies.

In 2011, Winkler guest starred as Ambush Bug in the series finale of Batman: The Brave and the Bold.

In August 2012, Winkler announced on Twitter that he would be returning to the fourth season of Arrested Development.^[27] Winkler appeared in the film Here Comes the Boom, released October 12, 2012, as the music teacher at Wilkinson High School.

Between 2013 and 2015, Winkler appeared in 9 episodes of Parks and Recreation as Dr. Saperstein, father of Jean-Ralphio and Mona-Lisa.

He starred in the British television adaption of his Hank Zipzer book series as the teacher, Mr. Rock. Mr. Rock was based on a music teacher Winkler had had in high school at McBurney. Winkler said that the real Mr. Rock believed in him and was the only teacher there who he felt did. The show aired on the CBBC Channel in the United Kingdom.^[28]

Winkler is a spokesman for reverse mortgages through Quicken Loans.

Beginning in the summer of 2016, Winkler starred in and executive produced the NBC series Better Late Than Never, which co-starred other entertainment legends (boxer George Foreman, actor William Shatner, football player and commentator Terry Bradshaw) and Jeff Dye. In 2016, they traveled to Asia; in 2017, they visited Europe, partaking in various European traditions. They discovered Winkler's family roots in Berlin, Germany, at a brass plaque, in the pavement in front of the house of Helmut Winkler, an uncle, who had died in Auschwitz.^[29][30]

'So, the story was that my father was able to get a six-week work visa to come to New York City, but Uncle Helmut^[31] was having a white dinner jacket made and it was going to be ready the next day.So, instead of going with my dad and my mom and leaving Berlin, he stayed an extra day, and that night was taken by the Nazis.'
— Henry Winkler, Better Late Than Never season 2, episode 4^[32]

Beginning in 2018, Winkler has appeared in the role of acting coach Gene Cousineau in the Bill Hader-helmed HBO comedy Barry,^[33] for which he was awarded the 2018 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.^[34]

Theater[edit]

Winkler's audition for the Yale School of Drama was to be a Shakespeare monologue, which he promptly forgot, so he made up his own Shakespeare monologue. Out of a class of 25 actors, 11 finished. During summers, he and his classmates opened a summer stock theater called New Haven Free Theater, putting on various plays including Woyzeck, and an improv night. The company put on a production of The American Pig at the Joseph Papp Public Theater for the New York Shakespeare Festival in New York City. In June 1970, after graduating from Yale, Winkler was asked to be part of the Yale Repertory Theatre company, which included James Naughton and Jill Eikenberry.^[5]

During his time there, Cliff Robertson, who had seen him perform in East Hampton, offered him a part in his film The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid. Winkler had to decline because he had no understudy for his current role, and thus was unable to leave. He stayed with the Yale Repertory Theatre for a year and a half.^[5]

In 1971, Winkler got a job at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. to work on the play, Moonchildren, but was fired by director, Alan Schneider.^[5]

In 1977, Winkler appeared in a TV special, 'Henry Winkler Meets William Shakespeare,' part of the CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People instructional series for children. With the assistance of Tom Aldredge as Shakespeare, Winkler, as himself, introduced an audience of children to Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, and Henry IV and explained to them how Shakespeare's plays were produced at the Globe Theatre in London in the 17th century. He also played Romeo in the scene from Romeo and Juliet in which Romeo slays Tybalt in a sword duel.^[35][36]

Pantomime[edit]

Winkler appeared in his first pantomime at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London in 2006, playing Captain Hook in Peter Pan, replacing David Hasselhoff who pulled out when he was offered a TV role by Simon Cowell. He reprised the role in Woking for Christmas 2007. For the 2008/2009 season, he played Captain Hook at the Milton Keynes Theatre and donned the hook once again for the 2009/2010 panto season at the Liverpool Empire.^[37]

In December 2013, Winkler reprised his role of Captain Hook in Peter Pan at the Richmond Theatre in South West London.

In the 2013 Broadway season, Winkler, Cheyenne Jackson, Alicia Silverstone, and Ari Graynor were announced to star in the David West Read play The Performers opening November 14, 2012, at The Longacre Theatre.^[38]

Author[edit]

In 1998, Winkler's agent at CAA, Alan Berger, suggested Winkler write a children's book about dyslexia, but Winkler didn't think that he would be able to write because of his struggles with the learning disability. Berger was persistent, and a few years later, in 2003, he again suggested Winkler write. Winkler said yes. Berger suggested he co-write with author Lin Oliver.^[8] Winkler has since written 19 books.^[4]

Hank Zipzer books[edit]

Since 2003, Winkler has collaborated with Lin Oliver on a series of children's books about a 4th grade boy, Hank Zipzer, who is dyslexic. Winkler also has the learning disability, which was not diagnosed until he was 31 and his stepson Jed, who was in the third grade, was tested;^[39] the dyslexia was an unhappy^[40] part of his childhood. Winkler has published 17 books about his hero Zipzer, the 'world's greatest underachiever'.^[41]

In July 2008, Winkler joined First News on their annual Reading Tour of schools where he read excerpts from his Hank Zipzer books. This has since become an annual tour.^[42]

In 2011, he donated books to Holy Rosary School, PA. The school was flooded out by Tropical Storm Lee.

On May 31, 2011, Winkler's book, I've Never Met an Idiot on the River, was published. It is a collection of his photographs and reflections drawn from his love of fly fishing and life with his family.

Other activities[edit]

• October 2008: Winkler appeared in a video on funnyordie.com with Ron Howard, reprising their roles as Fonzie and Richie Cunningham, encouraging people to vote for Barack Obama. The video titled 'Ron Howard's Call to Action' also featured Andy Griffith.^[3][43]
• June 19, 2010: Winkler appeared on James Corden's ITV World Cup Live show. He represented the US in the World Cup Wall Chart.
• 2013: Winkler appeared in MGMT's music video for 'Your Life is a Lie,' and made a special appearance with the band at FYF Fest 2013 where he played an oversized cowbell.

Honors and awards[edit]

• 1996: Class Day speaker at Yale University, an honor accorded to distinguished Yale alumni
• August 3, 2008: Guest conductor at the Boston Pops by the Sea Concert in Hyannis, Massachusetts
• August 19, 2008: Unveiling of the Bronze Fonz, a life-sized, bronze statue of Fonzie along the Milwaukee Riverwalk.^[44]
• March 29, 2010: Key to the City of Winnipeg for his contributions to education and literacy^[45]

Golden Globe Awards

• 1977: Won – Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy – Happy Days
• 1978: Won – Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy – Happy Days(tied with Ron Howard, also for Happy Days)
• 1978: Nominated – Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama – Heroes
• 1983: Nominated – Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy – Night Shift
• 2018: Nominated – Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film – Barry

Daytime Emmy Award

• 1995: Won – Outstanding Children's Special - 12th Daytime Emmy Awards – CBS Schoolbreak Special: 'All the Kids Do It'^[46]
• 2005: Won – Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program - 32nd Daytime Emmy Awards – Clifford's Puppy Days^[47]

Primetime Emmy Awards

• 1976: Nominated – Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Happy Days
• 1977: Nominated – Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Happy Days
• 1978: Nominated – Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Happy Days
• 1979: Nominated – Outstanding Informational Program – Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids?
• 2000: Nominated – Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series – The Practice
• 2000: Nominated (later withdrawn) – Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series – Battery Park – the nomination was withdrawn when it was pointed out later that the episode had aired after the Emmy's May 31 deadline.^[48]
• 2018: Won – Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Barry^[49]
• 2019: Pending – Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Barry

• 2019: Won – Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series – Barry

Order of the British Empire

In September 2011, Winkler was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) 'for services to children with special educational needs and dyslexia in the UK'.^[50][51]

National Literacy Trust

On December 3, 2013, Winkler was named by the National Literacy Trust as one of the United Kingdom's top 10 Literacy Heroes.^[52]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Television[edit]

Other work[edit]

Director[edit]

• A Smoky Mountain Christmas (1986)
• Memories of Me (1988)
• Cop and a Half (1993)

Producer[edit]

Henry Winkler Author Hank Zipzer

• MacGyver (TV series) (1985–1992, 2016–present, executive producer)
• Sightings (TV series) (1991–1998, executive producer - Winkler/Daniel Productions)
• Dead Man's Gun (TV series) (1997–1999, executive producer)

Personal life[edit]

Winkler has been married to his wife Stacey (formerly Weitzman; née Furstman)^[54] since May 5, 1978. With her, he has two children, Zoe Emily (b. 1980), a pre-school teacher,^[55][56] and Max Daniel (b. August 18, 1983), a director. Winkler also has a stepson, Jed Weitzman, from Stacey's previous marriage with Howard Weitzman.

Winkler is a cousin of actor Richard Belzer.^[57] Winkler is the godfather of Bryce Dallas Howard, daughter of Happy Days co-star Ron Howard. Winkler was the 9th King of the Bacchus Parade at the Mardi Gras in New Orleans in 1977;^[58] the theme was 'Happily Ever After'.

Winkler said he was named after his Uncle Helmut, who did not make it out of Germany during World War II.^[5] His middle name, Franklin, was in honor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.^[5]

He is an avid fly fisherman, which he often does in Montana. On the rewards of this hobby, Winkler said:

The repetition of it, the sound of the water, I find it to be totally draining. Anything that bothers you is completely washed from your body. I see fly-fishing as a washing machine for your brain. My technique is still ugly as sin. But somehow I get the fish.^[4]

He has also said, 'I have never eaten a trout in a restaurant let alone take it out of the river.'

Works and publications[edit]

In addition to the Hank Zipzer series, which has 17 books, Winkler has written another series with Lin Oliver called Here's Hank, a prequel to the Zipzer stories.^[12]

• Winkler, Henry. The Other Side of Henry Winkler: My Story. New York: Warner Books, 1976. ISBN978-0-446-87340-6OCLC3120426
• Winkler, Henry. I've Never Met an Idiot on the River: Reflections on Family, Photography and Fly-Fishing. San Rafael, Calif: Insight Editions, 2011. ISBN978-1-608-87020-2OCLC670481642

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Further reading[edit]

Interviews[edit]

• Henry Winkler at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television, Emmys. November 10, 2006. Video interview by Karen Herman.
• 'Interview with Henry Winkler,' Just One More Book!! January 21, 2008. Audio interview with transcript.
• 'Conversations at KCTS 9: Henry Winkler,' August 6, 2010. Video interview.

Henry Winkler Children

External links[edit]

Henry Winkler Children's Books

• Henry Winkler on IMDb
• Henry Winkler at the Internet Broadway Database
• Hank Zipzer (official website)
• Henry Winkler at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Henry Winkler at Library of Congress Authorities, with 32 catalog records