Happy Days: Henry Winkler in his iconic role as The Fonz Even if they base their characters on real people, most authors go to great lengths to hide that fact, if only on the advice of libel lawyers. Not Henry Winkler, though. The actor-turned-writer, better known as The Fonz from the hit Seventies sitcom Happy Days, has penned a series of engaging little stories about a boy with learning difficulties and his ogress of a teacher.

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The dreadful Miss Adolf — whose main aim in life seems to be to hold the young Hank Zipzer back from achieving anything — surely can’t be modelled on a real person? ‘Oh yes, she is,’ says Winkler. New Blue Fx Activation Keygen Torrent here. ‘She was my teacher at school. She was exactly like she is on the page. Just as Hank was me at that age.’ You changed the name, presumably?

‘No, I did not. That was her name. It is etched in my memory. She was the worst teacher on the planet. I don’t know if she ever read any of my books. But if she did, she would have seen herself very clearly.’ One hopes, for Miss Adolf’s sake, that she isn’t around to have witnessed what became of one of her famous pupil — or hear what he has to say about her role in his success.

Last week, Winkler was honoured by none other than the Queen, who made him an honorary OBE. Could the Queen be a Fonz fan? The thought might be tantalising to the rest of us, but the award was not for his services to the entertainment business.

It was for a more private endeavour; his work with children who, like him, suffer from dyslexia. Share The citation didn’t even mention his acting. ‘And that made it all the more special,’ he points out.

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And for that to be recognised is extraordinary. I am incredibly touched.’ For the past few years, Winkler has been writing his Hank Zipzer books, teamed up with children’s newspaper First News to do several tours of British classrooms telling Hank’s story — or rather, his story? — to children too young to know of his famous alter ego. The story of how a classroom reject came to play one of the most iconic sitcom characters of the modern age sounds like a work of fiction in itself. Winkler with his wife Stacey, whom he married in 1978.

She knew of his issues and he came to rely on her At school, Winkler was — he says it himself, and there are no shortage of damning descriptions — ‘the class Dunce, someone who was less able, not that bright. Despite this, he went on to enjoy incredible success as a much-loved actor. An entire generation will remember his most famous alter-ego, the leather-jacketed, bequiffed Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli in the American show Happy Days. It ran from 1974 for ten years, and by the end The Fonz was a global phenomenon — voted the 4th greatest TV character of all time.

While he never played quite as iconic a character again, Henry Winkler kept acting, starred in award-winning sitcom Arrested Development and established himself as a respected film director. What none of his fans knew, however, was that throughout it all, he suffered from severe dyslexia, and had dreadful trouble actually reading his scripts. TV bosses might have admired his nonchalant ability to ad lib, and insert his own jokes into the script — but they were not aware that this was a device to cover the fact that he could not read the words in front of him.