Henry Winkler Filmography

Berkeley

Actors: Nick Roth, Laura Jordan, Henry Winkler, Sarah Carter, Tom Morello

Synopsis: A young man is thrown into the center of the political and social tumult of the late '60s in this drama. It's 1968, and Ben Sweet (Nick Roth) is 18 years old and has just received his 1A draft classification. Ben does not want to go to Vietnam, and his father Sy (Henry Winkler) is understanding Read More

I Could Never Be Your Woman

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd, Saoirse Ronan, Stacey Dash, Fred Willard

Synopsis: Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Clueless director Amy Heckerling returns to her position behind the camera for the first time in six years with this romantic comedy contrasting the age disparity romance of an older divorcée with the spring butterflies that her daughter experiences upon falling in Read More

Click

Actors: Adam Sandler, Kate Beckinsale, Christopher Walken, Henry Winkler, David Hasselhoff

Synopsis: A workaholic architect, frustrated in his job but determined to make a better life for his family, is bestowed with a powerful universal remote that allows him more control over his life than he ever knew possible in director Frank Coraci's high-concept fantasy comedy. On the surface, Michael Read More

Nature: Underdogs

The Kid & I

Actors: Tom Arnold, Eric Gores, Linda Hamilton, Henry Winkler

Synopsis: A washed-up actor finds an unlikely path back to the big screen in this offbeat family comedy. Bill Williams (Tom Arnold) is an actor whose career has gone into a severe tailspin ever since his brief fling with fame -- a supporting role in the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle True Lies. Sinking into Read More

Fronterz

Actors: Reno Wilson, Dennis Pressey, Garth Belcon, Lydia Ramirez, Tamara Lynch

Synopsis: The show business comedy Fronterz concerns three struggling actors who grow disenchanted with their profession after seeing so many rappers without any acting experience winning major roles. They decide to start their own rap act, the Large Money Mercenaries, and invent fake personalities to fit. Read More

Holes

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson, Dule Hill

Synopsis: A boy being punished for a crime he didn't commit learns there's more going on at a juvenile correctional facility than meets the eye in this comedy drama. Stanley Yelnats IV (Shia LaBeouf) is a teenager who has been told all his life that the men in the Yelnats family are cursed, thanks to a Read More

Clifford's Puppy Days [Animated TV Series]

Television: The First 50 Years

Strange Days at Blake Holsey High [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Emma Taylor Isherwood, Shadia Simmons, Robert Clark, Michael Seater, Noah Reid

Synopsis: This weekend-morning fantasy series for kids largely took place in a sinister-looking prep school called Blake Holsey High. Because of the preponderance of curious phenomena that occurred within the walls of the school -- from spontaneously combustible desks to mysteriously disappearing freshmen Read More

Heartland Ghost

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Randy Birch, Beau Bridges, Richard Halliday, Lori Ravensbourg, Nia Long

Synopsis: Based upon an allegedly factual story featured in the paranormal reality series Sightings, this made-for-cable chiller stars Beau Bridges as Derek, a cynical TV producer. Despite his own personal skepticism concerning supernatural activity, Derek agrees to visit a supposedly haunted house in Read More

The Drew Carey Show: It's Halloween, Dummy

Synopsis: Henry Winkler guest stars as Mr. Newsome, the easygoing new owner of Winfred-Louder. Immediately connecting with Drew (Drew Carey), Mr. Newsome confides that he is planning to oust Mr. Wick as personnel manager--and put Drew in his place. He intends to make this announcement official at a board Read More

Ennis' Gift

Little Nicky

Actors: Adam Sandler, Patricia Arquette, Harvey Keitel, Rhys Ifans, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr.

Synopsis: The youngest child of the family often has the most problems -- so why should things be different for the Prince of Darkness and his offspring? Satan (Harvey Keitel) is considering retirement, and is pondering which of his sons should take over the family business -- ambitious Adrian (Rhys Ifans) Read More

Down to You

Actors: Freddie Prinze, Jr., Joanna Adler, Julia Stiles, Jennifer Albano, Selma Blair, Caroline Ambrose, Shawn Hatosy, Zak Orth, Jason Bailey

Synopsis: This Big Apple-based romantic comedy charts the tumultuous relationship between liberal arts student and budding chef Al (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and his first girlfriend, Imogen (Julia Stiles), a self-possessed freshman who wants to become an artist. After meeting in a bar, the pair jump into a Read More

Dill Scallion

Actors: Billy Burke, Peter Berg, Lauren Graham, Kathy Griffin, David Koechner

Synopsis: Dill Scallion is a mock-documentary that chronicles the fast rise and even faster fall of a country singer whose IQ appears to equal the waist measurement of his jeans. Billy Burke plays a school bus driver in a small Texas town who becomes a Country and Western superstar overnight thanks to songs Read More

P.U.N.K.S.

Actors: Randy Quaid, Tim Redwine, Henry Winkler

Synopsis: Randy Quaid, Tim Redwine and Henry Winkler star in this sci-fi adventure for the family about a group of outcast teenagers who run afoul of an evil scientific genius. However, they are able to get ahold of his latest invention -- a special suit that gives superpowers to whomever wears it. ~ Mark Read More

The Waterboy

Actors: Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler, Fairuza Balk, Jerry Reed

Synopsis: As with his previous films, comedian Adam Sandler and writing partner Tim Herlihy have conceived a simple premise, character, and title, and peppered their creation with visual sight gags. The story concerns Bobby Boucher, a Louisiana-born-and-bred kid living in the swamps with his overbearing Read More

Ground Control

Actors: Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Sean Leonard, Kelly McGillis, Kristy Swanson

Synopsis: Ground Control follows the reluctant return to work of Jack Harris (Kiefer Sutherland), a retired air traffic controller who is still haunted by his role in a probably unavoidable plane crash that has left him guilt-ridden and professionally gun shy. When a Phoenix airport fighting budget cutbacks Read More

Hostage High

Actors: Rick Schroder, Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Synopsis: An angry and unstable youth lashes out against the school he believes has destroyed his future in this made-for-TV drama inspired by a true story. Jason Copeland (Rick Schroder) is a teenager teetering on the edge of emotional collapse; he was kicked out of high school for poor grades, he hasn't Read More

National Lampoon's Dad's Week Off

Actors: Henry Winkler, Olivia D'Abo, Richard Jeni, Justin Louis, Ken Pogue

Synopsis: In this slapstick outing a small heart attack leads a doctor to prescribe rest and relaxation to the afflicted salesman. Unfortunately, the vendor's peaceful plans are destroyed when his well-meaning but inept friend comes to call. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Scream

Actors: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan, Jamie Kennedy, Matthew Lillard, Drew Barrymore

Synopsis: Scream is at once a slasher film and a tongue-in-cheek position paper on the "dead teenagers" movies of the late 1970s/early 1980s that plays as half-parody, half-tribute. Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) is having a rough time lately: she's still getting over the brutal rape and murder of her Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Hank's Sex Tape

Synopsis: Picked as the spokesman for Florida Orange Juice after assuring their representative that he's a straight-arrow, meat-and-potatoes kind of guy, Hank (Jeffrey Tambor) soon finds himself facing controversy after Phil (Wallace Langham) finds a revealing video in the newfound spokesman's desk. After Read More

MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Richard Dean Anderson, Brian Blessed, Sophie Ward, Oliver Ford Davies, Christian Burgess, Kevork Malikyan, Tim Woodward

Synopsis: In this telemovie spinoff of the popular series MacGyver, the titular hero (Richard Dean Anderson) - an astonishingly resourceful scientist ere-equipped with his trusty Swiss Army Knife - embarks on an Indiana Jones-style quest to find the lost treasure of Atlantis. Brian Blessed, Sophie Ward and Read More

Nobody's Children

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ann-Margret, Dominique Sanda, Jay O. Sanders

Synopsis: Ann-Margret stars in the made-for-cable movie Nobody's Children, filmed on-location in Bucharest, Romania, and based on a true story. Ann-Margret and Jay O. Sanders star as the real-life Carol and Joe Stevens, a married couple from Detroit who are unable to conceive a child of their own. They Read More

One Christmas

Synopsis: Katharine Hepburn and Henry Winkler star in this heartwarming Christmas drama adapted from a Truman Capote short story. In the film, a young boy is finally reunited with his dallying dad. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Cop and a Half

Crew: Director

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Norman D. Golden II, Ruby Dee, Holland Taylor, Ray Sharkey

Synopsis: When an eight-year-old black youth (Norman D. Golden II) witnesses a mob hit, he orders the police to make him a cop for a day before he will help identify the killer. Detective Nick McKenna (Burt Reynolds) is the unfortunate assigned to the case. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Only Way Out

Actors: John Ritter, Henry Winkler, Julianne Phillips, Stephanie Faracy, Sam Mancuso

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, an woman unwittingly endangers her ex-husband's life after she becomes involved with a sociopath. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Absolute Strangers

Actors: Audra Lindley, Henry Winkler, Richard Kiley, Karl Malden

Synopsis: In 1988, Nancy Klein, the pregnant wife of Long Island accountant Marty Klein, was involved in a car accident that left her comatose. Convinced that Nancy would never recover if she went to full term with the baby, Marty asked the doctors to perform an abortion. Almost immediately, Nancy Klein Read More

Classic Bloopers

Asterix and the Big Fight

Synopsis: An animated film based on a set of French comic strip characters, this is the story of a Gallic warrior and his companion who battle invading Romans. This is a continuation of a series of history-spoofing cartoons from director René Goscinny which was picked up by Walt Disney, in which our Read More

Memories of Me

Crew: Director

Actors: Billy Crystal, Alan King, JoBeth Williams, Sean Connery, Janet Carroll

Synopsis: The bittersweet comedy Memories of Me stars Billy Crystal as Dr. Abbie Polin, a New York heart surgeon, long estranged from his father, Abe (Alan King). When the doctor suffers a mild heart attack, he tries to patch things up with his dad, hoping in this way to bring some equilibrium to his own Read More

A Smoky Mountain Christmas

Crew: Director

Actors: Dolly Parton, Lee Majors, Bo Hopkins

Synopsis: Smoky Mountain Christmas is the sort of fare that always seems to pop up exclusively during the Yuletide season: an original made-for-TV musical fantasy. Dolly Parton plays a country-music star (imaginative casting, this) who finds herself stranded in the Tennessee backwoods with taciturn Read More

MacGyver [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Richard Dean Anderson

Synopsis: Whether or not one thinks that MacGyver was the best TV adventure hero to come down the pike, one cannot dispute that he was one of the most inventive and resourceful. Played by Richard Dean Anderson, MacGyver (we never knew he had a first name -- "Angus" -- until the series' last season!) was a Read More

Scandal Sheet

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lauren Hutton, Pamela Reed, Robert Urich, Burt Lancaster

Synopsis: Burt Lancaster is eminently hissable as a tabloid publisher in the made-for-TV Scandal Sheet. The current target of Lancaster's smears is alcoholic actor Robert Urich, who is on the verge of making a comeback through the auspices of his movie-star wife Lauren Hutton. Ruthlessly going after Urich Read More

The Sure Thing

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Cusack, Daphne Zuniga, Anthony Edwards, Boyd Gaines, Tim Robbins, Lisa Jane Persky

Synopsis: Director Rob Reiner's The Sure Thing is essentially It Happened One Night for the 1980s, but its lack of surprise in no way impedes its entertainment value. John Cusack plays Walter "Gib" Gibson, a self-involved college freshman who makes plans to head to California, there to touch base (and a few Read More

Pryor's Place, Vol. 1

Happy Days: Season 11

Actors: Henry Winkler, Ted McGinley, Scott Baio, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita

Strong Kids, Safe Kids

Synopsis: Strong Kids, Safe Kids is an educational general interest video that teaches children and their parents important safety skills. In an attempt to make serious subject matter accessible, the program uses a friendly, open voice, and takes a somewhat light approach. Viewers learn key steps to take to Read More

Happy Days: Season 10

Actors: Henry Winkler, Ted McGinley, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Anson Williams, Linda Purl, Cathy Silvers, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita

Happy Days: Season 09

Actors: Henry Winkler, Scott Baio, Marion Ross, Tom Bosley, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Al Molinaro

Night Shift

Actors: Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long, Gina Hecht, Pat Corley

Synopsis: Straight-laced Henry Winkler takes a night-shift job as a morgue attendant. Winkler falls under the spell of wheeler-dealer coworker Michael Keaton, whose catchphrase "Is this a great country or what?" is the clarion call for his many get-rich-quick schemes. His latest plan is to turn the morgue Read More

Happy Days: Season 08

Actors: Henry Winkler, Scott Baio, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Al Molinaro

Happy Days: Season 07

Actors: Henry Winkler, Scott Baio, Marion Ross, Tom Bosley, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Al Molinaro

An American Christmas Carol

Actors: Henry Winkler

Synopsis: Made up to look like a septuagenarian, Henry Winkler plays Benedict Slade, a Scrooge-like miser living in a tiny New England town during the Depression. Slade goes Scrooge one further by repossessing items from a poor farm couple and an orphanage on Christmas eve. While reading a copy of Dickens' Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Shotgun Wedding

Synopsis: Moving from its traditional Tuesday-night slot to a Thursday evening berth, Laverne & Shirley kicked off its fifth season with the conclusion of a two-part story which debuted September 11, 1979 on its "sister" series Happy Days. That show's leading characters Richie (Ron Howard) and Fonzie (Henry Read More

Steve Martin Live!

Synopsis: Culled from a 1979 comedy concert, this sampling of the Wild and Crazy Guy at his wildest and craziest may be familiar to his older fans, but is well worth another go-round. "Happy Feet," "King Tut," the arrows and the bunny ears are all in attendance; by this time, Martin's catchphrase and stock Read More

Happy Days: Season 06

Actors: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Scott Baio, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Don Most, Al Molinaro

The One and Only

Actors: Henry Winkler, Kim Darby, Gene Saks, William Daniels, Polly Holliday

Synopsis: Brash young Andy Schmidt (Henry Winkler) can't make a go of it as an actor in the early 1950s. Still, he wins the hand of Mary Crawford (Kim Darby), and the two of them try to make ends meet in New York City. Andy is on the verge of starvation when he befriends wrestling-promoter Sidney Seltzer (Gene Saks Read More

Happy Days: Season 05

Actors: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Scott Baio, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Don Most, Al Molinaro

Happy Days: Season 04

Actors: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Don Most, Al Molinaro

Heroes

Actors: Henry Winkler, Sally Field, Harrison Ford, Val Avery, Olivia Cole

Synopsis: Heroes is an old-fashioned social problem movie concerning a troubled Vietnam veteran and the loving woman who helps him to work out his problems. Henry Winkler plays Jack Dunne, a veteran who has a history of mental problems. Jack fools the hospital doctor Elias (Hector Elias) and escapes from Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Birthday Show

Synopsis: It isn't often that a popular sitcom serves up a "clip show" as early as its second season, but that's just what happens in this 27th episode of Laverne and Shirley. As the gang at the Pizza Bowl prepares to throw a party in the girls' honor, Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) Read More

Laverne & Shirley: The Society Party

Synopsis: Laverne DeFazio (Penny Marshall) and Shirley Finney (Cindy Williams) are promoted from their memorable Happy Days guest appearance to their own spinoff series as Laverne and Shirley launches its first season. In the opener, the girls--lifelong friends and fellow "bottle-cap technicians" at Read More

Happy Days: Season 03

Actors: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Don Most, Al Molinaro

Laverne & Shirley: Bachelor Mothers

Synopsis: Making another "crossover" visit from his usual Happy Days turf, Fonzie (Henry Winkler) shows up at the doorstep of Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams), asking a small favor. As a result, the girls find themselves babysitting Fonzie's infant godson on the same night they'd hoped Read More

Laverne & Shirley: The Bachelor Party

Synopsis: While her dad Frank (Phil Foster is out of town, Laverne (Penny Marshall) rents out Frank's restaurant, the Pizza Bowl, for a bachelor party thrown by their pal Fonzie (Henry Winkler). Unfortunately, the added burden of cooking up enough food and entertainment for Fonzie's buddies proves to be a Read More

Happy Days: Season 02

Actors: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Don Most, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita

Katherine

Actors: Sissy Spacek, Art Carney

Synopsis: Brilliantly constructed in semi-documentary fashion, Katherine is the story of how a young upper-middle-class girl gradually radicalizes into a violence-prone revolutionary. The story is related in flashbacks sparked by "interviews" with Katherine (Sissy Spacek), her troubled parents (Art Carney, Jane Wyatt Read More

Crazy Joe

Actors: Mario Erpichini, Nella Dina, Timothy Holley

Synopsis: This graphically violent crime drama follows the relatively brief career of the notorious racketeer Crazy Joe Gallo, who formed an alliance with all of New York City's African-American gangs while serving time in Attica. Once he got out, he used that alliance to try and take over the Mafia, an act Read More

The Mike Douglas Show: September 5, 1974

Nightmare

Synopsis: In this thriller, a man, who witnessed his neighbor's murder, tries to no avail, to convince the cops that he is going to be the next victim. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Clink Shrink

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Suddenly possessed with a sense of social consciousness, Bob offers free counseling sessions to Miles Lascoe, a recently paroled armed robber. The new patient is relaxed enough, but Bob is a bundle of nerves. The role of Lascoe is played by Henry Winkler, just before his ascent to stardom as the Read More

The Lords of Flatbush

Actors: Armand Assante, Perry King, Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler, Paul Mace, Susan Blakely

Synopsis: This low-budget independent film by novice directors Stephen F. Verona and Martin Davidson is a slice-of-life elegy from the leather-jacket, bobby-soxer era of 1957, set in a Brooklyn high school. The film stands out for the appearance of up-and-coming actors (circa 1974) Sylvester Stallone, Henry Winkler Read More

Happy Days: Season 01

Actors: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Tom Bosley, Marion Ross, Erin Moran, Anson Williams, Don Most, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita

Video Yesterbloop

Synopsis: This compilation tape features unexpected happenings on local TV news shows, funny animal footage, and bloopers and outtakes from such television shows as The Price Is Right, Happy Days, All My Children and One Day at a Time, among others. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More