Henry Franklin Winkler (born October 30, 1945) is an American actor, director, producer, and author. Winkler is best known for his role as Fonzie on the 1970s American sitcom Happy Days. "The Fonz," a leather-clad greaser and auto mechanic, started out as a minor character at the show's beginning but had achieved top billing by the time the show ended.

Filmography

• 2026Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass — Henry Winkler (uncredited)
• Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America — John Hancock
• 2026Normal — Mayor Kibner
• 2026Rolling Loud: The Movie
• 2026Untitled The Patrick Star Show Mini-Series — Jeffy Tentacles (voice)
• Everybody's Live with John Mulaney — Self - Actor and Best-Selling Author, Hector the Teen Driver / Self
• 2025The Final Cut — God
• Batwheels — Santa (voice)
• 2022Black Adam — Uncle Al
• Chanshi — Tatty
• 2022Family Squares — Bobby
• Loot — Gerald
• 2022On the Count of Three — Dr. Brenner
• 2022Reindeer in Here — Smiley (voice)
• The Legend of Vox Machina — Wilhand Trickfoot (voice)
• American Horror Stories — Dr. Eric Nostrum
• 2021Extinct — Jepson (voice)
• Inside Job — Melvin (voice)
• Monsters at Work — Fritz (voice)
• Rugrats — Boris (voice), Boris / The Count / Mr. Friend Doll (voice)
• 2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun — Uncle Joe
• The Patrick Star Show — Jeffy Tentacles (voice)
• 2020AGFA's Special Christmas Special — Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli
• Close Enough — Alex's Dad (voice)
• Medical Police — Sy Mittleman
• 2020Pink Skies Ahead — Dr. Cotton
• 2020Scoob! — Keith (voice)
• 2020The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault — Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli (archive footage)
• 2020The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU — (archive footage)
• Where's Waldo? — Wizard Longbeard (voice)
• Barry — Gene Cousineau
• Welcome to the Wayne — Leo Wasserman
• All Hail King Julien: Exiled — Uncle King Julien (voice)
• DuckTales — Bailiff (voice)
• 2017Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You — Grandpa Bill (voice)
• 2017Sandy Wexler — Testimonial
• 2016Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie — Ed Koch
• 2016Hank Zipzer's Christmas Catastrophe — Mr. Rock
• MacGyver — Executive Producer
• 2015Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant — Stanley Warner
• All Hail King Julien — Uncle King Julien (voice)
• Hank Zipzer — Mr. Rock
• Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero — The Snowman (voice)
• 2014Robot Chicken: Christmas Specials — Various (voice) (archive sound)
• Drunk History — Zenas Fisk Wilber
• 2013LEGO Hero Factory: Brain Attack — Nathaniel Zib (voice)
• Teen Titans Go! — Captain Cool (voice)
• Uncle Grandpa — Nacho Cheese (voice)
• 1600 Penn — Senator Faxler
• Comedy Bang! Bang! — Leonard Rascal
• 2012Here Comes the Boom — Marty Streb
• 2011Adventures of Serial Buddies — Narrator
• Bob's Burgers — Mall Santa (voice)
• Bubble Guppies — Yeti (voice)
• 2011Classic TV Bloopers Uncensored — Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli (archive footage)
• 2011LEGO Hero Factory: Ordeal of Fire — Nathaniel Zib (voice)
• 2011LEGO Hero Factory: Savage Planet — Nathaniel Zib (voice)
• New Girl — Flip
• 2011Running Mates — Bob Weatherbee
• Up All Night — Marty Alexander
• 2010Group Sex — Burton
• Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil — Principal (voice)
• LEGO Hero Factory — Professor Nathaniel Zib
• 2010LEGO Hero Factory: Rise of the Rookies — Nathaniel Zib (voice)
• Angela and Friends
• Parks and Recreation — Dr. Saperstein
• Royal Pains — Eddie R. Lawson
• Sit Down Shut Up
• 2008A Plumm Summer — Happy Herb
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold — Ambush Bug (voice)
• Childrens Hospital — Sy Mittleman
• 2008Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh — Judge Newman
• 2008The Most Wonderful Time of the Year — Uncle Ralph
• 2008You Don't Mess with the Zohan — Limousine Passenger
• 2007The Thick of It — Rep. "Spike" Crandall
• 2006Click — Ted
• Rachael Ray
• 2006Unbeatable Harold — Fullerton
• American Dad! — Child Protection Services Agent (voice)
• 2005Berkeley — Sy
• Numb3rs — Roger Bloom
• Out of Practice — Dr. Stewart Barnes
• Robot Chicken — John Adams (voice), Christmas Tree / Jason Bourne / Nerd's Father (voice)
• 2005The Kid & I — Johnny Bernstein
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson — Self, Personal Budget Expert
• 2004Fronterz
• 2004Weezer: Video Capture Device - Treasures from the Vault 1991-2002 — Fonzie ("Buddy Holly") (archive footage)
• Arrested Development — Barry Zuckerkorn
• Clifford's Puppy Days — Norville (voice)
• Duck Dodgers — Dr. Maniac (voice)
• 2003Holes — Stanley Yelnats III
• Young MacGyver — Executive Producer, Creator
• Ozzy & Drix — Sal Monella (voice)
• 2002Sightings: Heartland Ghost — Executive Producer
• Crossing Jordan — Dr. Jack Slocum
• Battery Park — Walter Dunleavy
• 2000Down to You — Chef Ray
• 1999Dill Scallion — Larry Steinberg
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Edwin Todd
• 1999P.U.N.K.S — Edward Crow
• So Weird — Fergus McGarrity, Producer
• SpongeBob SquarePants — Sharkface, Sharkface (voice), Jeffy Tentacles (voice)
• Third Watch — Lester Martin
• 1998Ground Control — John Quinn
• Hollywood Squares — Executive Producer
• 1998The Waterboy — Coach Klein
• 1997Dad's Week Off — Jack Potter
• Dead Man's Gun — Executive Producer
• 1997Hostage High — Skip Fine
• South Park — The Scary Monster (voice)
• The Practice — Dr. Henry Olson
• Blue's Clues
• Clueless — Director
• E! True Hollywood Story
• Sabrina, the Teenage Witch — Director
• 1996Scream — Principal Himbry (uncredited)
• TFI Friday
• 1995A Child Is Missing — Steven Moore, Producer
• The Drew Carey Show — Mr. Newsome
• Too Something — Director
• 1994MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday — Executive Producer
• Monty — Monty Richardson
• 1994Nobody's Children — Executive Producer
• 1994One Christmas — Dad
• 1994Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! — Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli (archive footage)
• 1993Cop & ½ — Director
• Dave's World — Director
• 1993The Only Way Out — Tony
• Sightings
• The Larry Sanders Show — Henry Winkler
• 1991Absolute Strangers — Marty Klein
• 1991Sightings: The UFO Report — Executive Producer
• The Simpsons — Ramrod (voice)
• 1989Two Daddies? — Carl Conway (voice), Executive Producer
• 1988Memories of Me — Director
• 1987Funny, You Don't Look 200: A Constitutional Vaudeville — Immigrant
• 1986A Smoky Mountain Christmas — Director
• Mr. Sunshine — Producer
• 1985Happily Ever After — Carl Conway (voice)
• MacGyver — Wilton Newberry (uncredited), Executive Producer
• 1985Scandal Sheet — Executive Producer
• 1985The Sure Thing — Executive Producer
• 1985Young Sherlock Holmes — Producer
• 1984All The Kids Do It — Director
• 1984Strong Kids, Safe Kids — Himself / Arthur 'The Fonz' Fonzarelli, Executive Producer
• 1983Starflight: The Plane That Couldn't Land — Executive Producer
• 1983When Your Lover Leaves — Executive Producer
• Joanie Loves Chachi — Director
• Nature — Narrator (voice)
• 1982Night Shift — Chuck Lumley
• The Mork & Mindy / Laverne & Shirley / Fonz Hour — The Fonz (voice)
• The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang — Fonzie
• 1979A Walking Tour of Sesame Street — Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli (archive footage)
• 1979An American Christmas Carol — Benedict Slade
• Mork & Mindy — Fonzie
• 1978The One and Only — Andy Schmidt
• 1977Heroes — Jack Dunne
• 1977Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? — Self - Host (Television Version), Executive Producer
• Laverne & Shirley — Arthur Fonzarelli
• 1975Katherine — Bob Kline
• 1974Crazy Joe — Mannie
• Happy Days — Arthur Fonzarelli
• 1974Nightmare — Auditioning Actor (uncredited)
• 1974The Lords of Flatbush — Butchey Weinstein
• The Bob Newhart Show — Miles Lascoe
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show — Steve Waldman
• Encore
• Grown Ups 3
• Old Pals — Ira

Appearances as themselves (84)

• Hazardous History with Henry Winkler — Self - Host
• 2025Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore — Self
• 2024Good Men — Self
• Rock, Paper, Scissors — Self (voice)
• 2023Sly — Self
• The Family Stallone — Self
• 2022Killing Me Softly with His Songs — Self
• Sherri — Self - Guest
• 2022Starting Now: the Making of Barry — Self
• The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self - Guest
• Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? — Self
• History of the Sitcom — Self - Actor
• 2021More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story — Self
• Stars in the House — Self
• 2020The Happy Days of Garry Marshall — Self
• Lights Out with David Spade — Self - Panelist
• 2019Pizza: A Love Story — self
• 2019Suzi Q — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self
• Today with Jenna & Sheinelle — Self
• 2017Heroes Manufactured — Self (archive footage)
• Better Late Than Never — Self
• 2016PRISM — Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• BoJack Horseman — Self (voice)
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self, Self - Guest
• Hollywood Game Night — Self
• 2013The Arrested Development Documentary Project — Self
• 2011Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective — Self
• Conan — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• 2009We Are the People We've Been Waiting For — Self
• Celebrity Juice — Self
• Shatner's Raw Nerve — Self
• 2007Heckler — Self
• 2007I Could Never Be Your Woman — Self (uncredited)
• 8 Out of 10 Cats — Self
• 2005Raging Bull: Outside the Ring — Self
• The Tony Danza Show — Self - Guest
• 2003ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• American Idol — Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
• Good Day Live — Self
• Richard & Judy — Self
• 2000Ennis' Gift — Self
• 2000Little Nicky — Self
• Teen Choice Awards — Self
• 1999Television: The First Fifty Years — Self
• King of the Hill — Self (voice)
• The View — Self
• Access Hollywood — Self
• GMTV — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• Vicki! — Self
• Pebble Mill — Self
• 1991Voices That Care — Self - Choir Member
• 1989Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre — Self (voice)
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• This Morning — Self - Guest
• 1987Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood — Self
• 1986Barbra Streisand: One Voice — Self (Interviewee)
• 1985Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers — Self (archive footage)
• 1984Donald Duck's 50th Birthday — Self
• 1984Steve Martin Live! — Self
• 1982Barry Norman in Celebrity City — Self
• 1982I Love Liberty — Self
• 1982Night of 100 Stars — Self
• 1979Sitcom: The Adventures of Garry Marshall — Self
• 1978Mickey's 50 — Self
• 1978Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy — Self
• 1977Neil Diamond : Live At the Greek Theatre 1976 — Self - Uncredited
• People's Choice Awards — Self
• Dinah! — Self
• The Great American Dream Machine — Himself
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Presenter
• The Wonderful World of Disney — Self
• The Oscars — Self
• The Emmy Awards — Self
• Lightworkers — Self-Interviewee