The inspiration for Fonzie jumping over a shark on Happy Days was because Henry Winkler's father pushed his son to tell the ...

However, for many fans, he'll always be known as the lovable greaser Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli from the hit ABC sitcom "Happy Days" -- a role Winkler has admittedly worked hard to move past since ...

Henry Winkler opened up in his commencement speech at Georgetown University about his own struggles in school, including nearly failing out of Emerson College.

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 ...

The idea of team-building was an important one to writer/producer Garry Marshall, who, in the 1970s, had produced the ...