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After Happy Days, the actor was adrift for decades until Arrested Development and Barry brought acclaim, an Emmy, and now a memoir. He discusses fame, childhood, and how he never stopped being grateful. It washe was 28 and had landed a gift of a role in Happy Days, a sitcom about a preppy midwestern teenager and his friends and family.

When the fan letters arrived, there were 50, of them. Winkler, 77, is talking from his study at home in Los Angeles. As we chat, his two dogs wander in and Winkler calls them over to introduce them. What they thought was a labrador grew into a great dane. After 10 years playing the Fonz, Winkler branched out.

This was out of necessity since the acting roles had all but dried up. Then, in his lates, he was cast as the incompetent attorney Barry Zuckerkorn in Arrested Development. Booked for one episode, Winkler ended up staying for five years. But it is Fonzie that people want to hear about.

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When I ask Winkler if he is sick of talking about him, he shakes his head and gestures to his surroundings. It looks like Mar-a-Lago. We are here to discuss his latest project, a memoir called Being Henry, which he was persuaded to write by his son, Max, a TV writer and director. Given Winkler has severe dyslexia, he initially dismissed the idea.

I never thought I could do that. But a memoir? So Winkler teamed up with a ghost writer, James Kaplan, and crafted an entertaining, candid and open-hearted account of his life and career. We learn of his early years as the youngest child of German-Jewish parents. In his father, Harry, who ran a lumber business, had tricked his mother, Ilse, into leaving Berlin by telling her he had to go to the US for business.

He recalls being left alone in their Manhattan apartment in his early teens at the weekends and instructed to study. Harry hoped his winkler would take over the lumber business, but Winkler had gay plans. He loved acting, something he attributes to never feeling seen or heard by his parents. He struggled to learn lines, for which he was roundly mocked, but he was undeterred.

I was extremely single-minded. After henry, Winkler worked in theatre in New York, keeping himself afloat with occasional TV commercials. If you want to be known to the world, go to California.