“I wear Garry Marshall’s tie as a tribute to my mentor. He also notes that on Barry, he continues his tradition of wearing something for a role that has personal meaning. “You can’t even invite a friend to the set.” I am so serious.” Will he share anything about the plot of season three? “No, because I want to be alive to do the fourth season,” he says of the secrecy around the filming. That was when I got $173 a week with the Yale Repertory Theatre and we did a season in East Hampton, Long Island, at the John Drew Guild Theater. I think this is the most intense character, this moment in the third season, of my entire career, June 30, 1970. Oh my God, it is amazing and this is not hyperbole. “I’m so sad that we’re coming close to the end of the season. Winkler does note that his hoarding has not reached one extreme: “I don’t have newspaper in the hallway.”Ĭurrently, the actor is filming the third season of HBO’s acclaimed comedy Barry. They were all in my home in a storage area.”Ī pair of mechanic overalls worn by Winkler on Happy Days, which have an estimate of $6,000-$8,000. I never got to ride on it I got to stand in it. Except I never found the gift to actually put in the box.” In going through his possessions, he realized he also has kept the following items: “A complete set of Happy Days trading cards, still in the cellophane an alien’s rubber head from the show Sightings that I produced a pop-top can of fresh air from Winnipeg, Canada every political pin that I ever got in my adult life and an unopened box of M&Ms from Air Force One. Little boxes of different sizes, kind of stacked like a Russian doll, and I have saved them for 40 years thinking I’m going to give somebody a gift that is going to be this big, and I will have the box to put it in. I save everything, thinking it is eventually going to be useful or important. Ron is like my brother, my younger brother and Anson and Donny, we talk all the time.”Īs part of his “spring cleaning,” Winkler admits, “I realized I honestly am a hoarder. Tomorrow, I am taking Marion Ross to lunch for her 93rd birthday. Winkler - who stars this month in Wes Anderson’s new film The French Dispatch - says that what he still cherishes most about appearing on Happy Days is that “I loved the people. “I like to take something from one thing and use it in another, so I bought these boots on 23rd street in New York City for The Lords of Flatbush and then I brought them with me to wear as the Fonz,” he says. BonhamsĪs part of the Bonhams sale, Winkler is also selling a pair of mechanic overalls that he wore in Happy Days, a jacket that he wore in Ron Howard’s Night Shift, and a pair of cowboy boots that he wore in the film The Lords of Flatbush and later as Fonzie. Army shirt worn by Winkler as Fonzie, which has an estimate of $2,000-$3,000. Winkler actually had two original Fonzie leather jackets at home, one of which is going up for sale. “She started this with two friends to take care of the children who were separated from their parents at the border,” says Winkler. Part of the proceeds from the Bonhams sale will go to support the nonprofit This Is About Humanity, which was co-founded by the actor’s daughter Zoe Winkler.
“I found 27 boxes, and those boxes were filled with memorabilia from Happy Days to The Waterboy to Scream.” Those boxes contained everything from T-shirt and hat collections to “the book that I held on the sidelines in The Waterboy for making plays,” he says, plus “two masks from Scream that I cut onscreen and the prop people gave me them because they weren’t going to be used again.” Winkler, who appeared as Principal Himbry in the 1996 film, is selling one of the Scream Ghostface masks it has an estimate of $20,000 to $30,000. “During the pandemic, I had the urge for spring cleaning except that it lasted for a year and a half,” explains Winkler, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, about why he’s selling the pieces now. 'Scream' Terrorizes Box Office With $3.5M in Previews The items are part of the 26-lot Henry Winkler Collection, which is included in Bonhams’ TCM sale.
The jacket will be sold as part of a complete Fonzie outfit that includes an original pair of blue jeans, T-shirt and biker boots the grouping has an estimate of $50,000 to $70,000.
Now Henry Winkler, famed for portraying the Fonz on the ’50s-themed show, is selling one of the character’s jackets, which he’s had in his personal possession for decades, in an auction that will take place Dec. One of the jackets was donated to the Smithsonian in 1980. Happy Days greaser Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli, one of the icons of cool on the small screen, was known for his motorcycle, white T-shirts, jeans and, most of all, his dark brown leather jacket.