Happy Days cast then and now: Ron Howard, Henry Winkler and Erin Moran

Ron was a baby actor within the early Nineteen Sixties, and acquired his large break in George Lucas’ 1973 movie American Graffiti, after George noticed the then-unsold pilot for Completely happy Days.

After the success of the movie, Completely happy Days was picked up by ABC and Ron starred within the first seven seasons earlier than leaving. He went on to start directing, and has directed a number of the hottest movies of the late twentieth century together with Splash, Apollo 13, and A Stunning Thoughts.

The 70-year-old has gained two Oscars – Finest Director and Finest Image – for A Stunning Thoughts, in addition to six Emmys together with for Arrested Improvement, two Golden Globes together with Finest Actor for Completely happy Days in 1977 and a Grammy Award for the 2017 documentary, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week.

In 2003 he was awarded the Nationwide Medal of Arts in 2003 and was inducted into the Tv Corridor of Fame that very same 12 months.

Henry, 78, helped flip Fonzie, also referred to as The Fonz, into one in every of TV’s most iconic characters of all time.

A recurring character in season one, he grew to become a primary star in season two and appeared in the whole sequence, till it resulted in 1984. Henry studied on the Yale Faculty of Drama, and spent the primary years of his profession engaged on Broadway earlier than shifting to Hollywood on the recommendation of his agent.

Throughout his second week in Los Angeles, he auditioned for Completely happy Days, and his life modified endlessly as The Fonz went on to change into the breakout star. His success, nonetheless, didn’t influence his friendship with Ron, with Henry as soon as recalling that Ron had advised him he did nothing improper “besides be nearly as good as you can be”.

Henry was nominated for 3 Emmys for his work in Completely happy Days.

He additionally appeared in Heroes (1977) with Harrison Ford and Sally Discipline and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Finest Actor, and was additionally forged in Ron’s 1982 directorial debut, Night time Shift.

Henry additionally shaped a friendship with Adam Sandler over time, and has appeared as Coach Klein within the 1998 movie The Waterboy, and as Sandler’s father in 2006’s Click on.

In 2003 he was requested to participate in a single episode of Arrested Development, which Ron was narrating, and he ended up staying for 5 years because the bumbling lawyer Barry Zuckerman. He gained an Emmy in 2018 for his work in Barry, and likewise has two Golden Globes and a SAG Award.

Lately, Henry has change into world famend for his kids’s books and the character Hank Zipzer, in regards to the adventures of a dyslexic youngster.

Marion, 95, starred as Richie’s mother Marion. After the sequence ended, she went on to seem in The Love Boat, alongside a number of of her Completely happy Days forged.Within the 2000s she appeared in Gilmore Ladies, and extra just lately Nurse Jackie and Gray’s Anatomy.

However she stored her give attention to voicework, showing within the Cartoon Community tv movie Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster, and voiced Grandma SquarePants on Nickelodeon’s SpongeBob SquarePants, and Mrs. Lopart on Useful Manny. 

She additionally guest-starred on The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, The Wild Thornberrys, Generator Rex, and King of the Hill

Marion retired in 2021, however in 2024, she returned to SpongeBob SquarePants, reprising her position as Grandma SquarePants within the season 13 episode “Don’t Make Me Chortle”.

Lately, Scott has been a vocal Trump supporter, and has been accused of recirculating Sandy Hook conspiracy theories

Like Ron, Don left Completely happy Days after the seventh season and returned as a visitor within the closing season. He performed Ralph Malph, who grew to become a primary character within the second season and he was shut buddies with Richie and Potsie.

After the present, he additionally appeared in The Love Boat for a number of episodes within the late ’70s and early ’80s, and reunited with Scott for an episode of Charles in Cost and Ron in ED TV.

Don can be a musician, and he carried out a number of instances on the present as a part of Richie and Potsie’s band.

In 2016 he launched his first swing Christmas album, Swinging Down The Chimney Tonight and he has additionally toured the US along with his swing band.

Completely happy Days was one in every of Anson’s first display screen roles; Potsie was Eichie’s finest pal and he had second billing within the first season.

Gullible however well-intentioned Potsie grew to become a beloved character along with his musical abilities turning into middle to his character improvement.

He appeared in all 11 seasons, and after the sequence ended Anson went on to change into a prolific TV director, engaged on Melrose Place, Beverly Hills, 90210, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Lizzie McGuire and The Secret Lifetime of the American Teenager.

Erin was signed by her expertise agent when she was simply five-year-old, and she or he has appeared in 14 TV exhibits earlier than she joined Completely happy Days when she was 14.

Nonetheless she claimed that by the point she had turned 15, producers “abruptly needed me to drop some weight and change into this attractive factor”.

After the present ended she fell on laborious instances, and moved right into a trailer along with her then-husband in Indiana.

On April 22, 2017, Erin died on the age of 56 with an post-mortem confirming the reason for loss of life to be problems of stage 4 squamous cell carcinoma of the throat.

“OH Erin… now you’ll lastly have the peace you needed so badly right here on earth …Relaxation In It serenely now.. too quickly,” Henry tweeted.

Tom was an acclaimed stage actor when he joined the forged of Completely happy Days. He originated the position of Fiorello La Guardia within the Broadway musical Fiorello!, incomes the 1960 Tony Award for Finest Efficiency by a Featured Actor in a Musical. 

He went on to star in a number of hit TV exhibits earlier than being forged because the patriarch of Completely happy Days, Howard Cunningham. He went on to obtain an Emmy nomination for his work in 1978.

When the sequence ended, he joined Angela Lansbury within the CBS thriller sequence Homicide, She Wrote and because the title character within the NBC/ABC sequence Father Dowling Mysteries.

Tom died on October 19, 2010, at a hospital along with his agent sharing that he had been identified with lung most cancers.