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Dec 7, 1995 · Photo added by Charles W. Holland. Advertisement. Harry Irving Winkler. Birth. 29 Oct 1903. Berlin, Germany. Death. 7 Dec 1995 (aged 92) New York County, New York, USA. Burial. Cedar Park Cemetery. Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey, USA Show Map. Memorial ID. 249214564. · View Source. Suggest Edits. Memorial. Photos 3. Flowers 8. Memorials.
- Growing Up Wasn’t So Cool. Winkler’s parents — Harry and Ilse Winkler — came to the United States in 1939 from Berlin, where they left their parents and siblings behind; they all would perish at the hands of the Nazis.
- Dyslexia Led Him Into Another Career. Having struggled with dyslexia at a young age (he regularly brought home report cards filled with D’s and F’s), Winkler wasn’t officially diagnosed with severe dyslexia until his 30s.
- He Adores His Wife. Married for 45 years, Winkler continues to dote on his wife, Stacey Weitzman, who he met at a clothing store in 1976. Today the two enjoy their grandchildren from their three children: Zoe (43, a schoolteacher), Max (40, a screenwriter and director) and Jed (52, who was from Weitzman’s first marriage).
- One Of The Last To Try Out For Fonzie. Winkler was one of the shortest and last actors to audition for the role of Fonzie. He originally didn’t think he was right for the role, but once he started to read, the lines of Fonzie came out.
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Oct 30, 2023 · October 30, 2023. in. Celebrity. Henry Winkler, the iconic actor has a remarkable life story that begins with his parents, Ilse Anna Maria and businessman Harry Irving Winkler, who were German Jews living in Berlin during the tumultuous era of Nazi Germany. Advertisement.
- Few People Know This About The Fonz
- Winkler's Parents Barely Escaped The Nazis
- He Was Named After An Uncle Who Didn't
- Winkler Shaped by Immigrants' Tenacity
- He Fought Through Self-Doubt, Mean Labels
- A Rewarding 'Second Act' After Fonzie
- Winkler Sees 'Jumping The Shark' Differently
He found his signature character in the grease pits of 1950s motorcycle culture and made Arthur Fonzarelli an icon in leather and chromium steel. If that wasn't boss enough, he rode the exact same Triumph motorcycle Steve McQueen used to jump fences in "The Great Escape" (1963). Fonzie was a character so unforgettable you cannot watch a retrospecti...
That Henry Winkler, his very existence, was once sitting directly in the path of history. That he exists today only because of the narrowest of escapes. Six years before he was born in Manhattan, his parents were German Jews living in Nazi Germany. It was 1939 and the greatest cataclysm in the history of man, a world war that would kill 70-85 milli...
His parents had long come to realize their homeland was turning against them. The streets were besieged with Hitler’s Brownshirts, who savaged the Jewish people. There was no future there. The Winklers got out and would mark their deliverance in the name of their son, Henry Franklin Winkler, the boy who grew up to become The Fonz. The “H” in Henry ...
Winkler’s parents took a ship to America, established themselves in New York City and gave birth to a baby boy on Oct. 30, 1945. His middle name, Franklin, would describe his parents' appreciation for the president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who they credit for the United States extending their visas. Henry Winkler grew up in ...
The Fonzie we know on television has a quality you can’t fake. He is cool. And cool would seem to come from a place of confidence. But he lacked confidence. He was consumed with self-doubt, suffering from undiagnosed dyslexia and a father and other loved ones who treated him badly. “I fought through being labeled stupid and lazy, and that I would n...
A decade as one of the most recognizable characters in television led to typecasting and lost jobs, but he never regretted it. “The wonderfulness that I got from The Fonz outweighed the trouble I had.” He turned to producing and directing, a made a living in Hollywood by other means. He also collaborated on a series of children’s books featuring Ha...
In one of the episodes of an evolving “Happy Days,” Fonzie uses water skis to jump a shark tank. To some it seemed the beginning of the series' downward slope. The expression “jump the shark” is now firmly part of the English lexicon, and Merriam-Webster defines it as “the point at which a period of success ends.” Did Winkler know he was jumping th...
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Nov 11, 2023 · But Winkler’s transparency about his battle with dyslexia, and the efforts he has made to bring awareness to the learning disability, is inspiring enough to make even the Fonz say “whoa.” Burning Ambition. Henry Franklin Winkler was born in New York on October 30th, 1945 to Ilse Anna Marie and Harry Irving Winkler.
Nov 19, 2023 · Henry Franklin Winkler was born on October 30, 1945 in Manhattan, New York to Jewish parents Ilse Anna Marie Winkler and Harry Irving Winkler. From an early age, he struggled in school due to undiagnosed dyslexia, described as "the family dunce" compared to his high-achieving siblings.
