Henry Winkler took inspiration for Fonzie from a greaser movie he'd starred in, but he based his performance on Sylvester ...

Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli (played by Henry Winkler) was the heartthrob of the series. But in a new interview, Winkler shared how his skyrocketing fame as Fonzie affected co-star Ron Howard—who ...

"I would do nothing Fonzie off of the show. I was Henry, and that was my character," the "Happy Days" star said. There was a time, Henry Winkler admits, that he was sensitive about people calling ...

Peter Dutton this week strapped on the skis and channelled his inner Fonzie with a baffling new tax plan. The idiom “jumping ...

He flies. Forty years later he’s flying still. That was Fonzie’s leap into legend and language when he jumped the shark on “Happy Days” in September 1977. A ’70s sitcom about life in the ...

But Fonzie quickly grew in popularity, and Winkler was promoted to series regular in season 2, continuing to portray the character for the rest of the show’s 11-season run. Howard, on the other ...