What job do both Tommy Wiseau and Henry Winkler have in common?
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Tommy Wiseau Tommy Wiseau ( ) is a Polish-American actor and filmmaker. He produced "The Room" (2003), which has been described by many critics as "one of the worst movies ever made" and has gained cult film status. He also directed the 2004 documentary "Homeless in America" and the 2015 sitcom "The Neighbors".
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Henry Winkler Henry Franklin Winkler (born October 30, 1945) is an American actor, director, comedian, producer, and author.
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Danny Winkler Danny Winkler (born 16 August 1973) is a retired German football forward.
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Mel Brooks Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show "Your Show of Shows". He became well known as part of the comedy duo with Carl Reiner in the comedy skit "The 2000 Year Old Man". He also created, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series "Get Smart", which ran from 1965 to 1970.
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Travis Banton Travis Banton (August 18, 1894 – February 2, 1958) was an American costume designer. He is perhaps best known for his long collaboration with actress Marlene Dietrich and director Josef von Sternberg. He is generally considered one of the most important Hollywood costume designers of the golden age.
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Bob Brunner Robert "Bob" Brunner (August 3, 1934 – October 28, 2012) was an American screenwriter, film producer, and television producer. He frequently collaborated in film and television with Garry Marshall, the creator of "Happy Days". Brunner is credited with creating the "Fonzie" nickname for Henry Winkler's character, Arthur Fonzarelli, on "Happy Days". He also created one of Fonzie's key catchphrases, "Sit on it."
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Cotton Knaupp Henry Antone "Cotton" Knaupp (August 13, 1889 – July 6, 1967) was a Major League Baseball player. A shortstop during his major league career, Knaupp batted from the right side and threw with his right hand. He had a listed height of 5 ft , and a listed weight of 165 pounds.
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Benny Thau Benny Thau (born Benjamin Thau, 15 December 1898 – 5 July 1983) was an American businessman who became vice-president of the Hollywood film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), a subsidiary of the Loew's theater chain. From 1928 he was in charge of casting, in the business of discovering and developing talented performers. He was known for his quiet and calming influence with often temperamental stars. Towards the end of his career he was studio boss for a short period.
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The One and Only (1978 film) The One and Only is a 1978 comedy film starring Henry Winkler, directed by Carl Reiner and written by Steve Gordon.
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Hank Henry Hank Henry (July 9, 1906 – March 31, 1981) was an American comedian, known for his stage work on the Las Vegas Strip for decades. He was also a film and television actor. Henry got his start in burlesque and was the comic to straightman Robert Alda, Alan Alda's father.
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Angela Winkler Angela Winkler (born 22 January 1944) is a German actress.
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Tommy Tallarico Tommy Tallarico (born February 18, 1968) is an American video game music composer, musician, sound designer, television personality and live show creative director and producer. He has worked on over 300 video game titles since the 1990s, has received numerous awards for his contribution to the video game industry. Notably, he is the creator of the concert series Video Games Live (VGL), a multi-award-winning symphony orchestra that has played video game music across the world since 2002. He also co-hosted the television shows Electric Playground and Reviews on the Run from 1997 until 2006. VGL and Tallarico hold several Guinness World Records.
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Alexander Winkler (footballer) Alexander Winkler (born 26 January 1992) is a German footballer who plays as a central defender for SpVgg Unterhaching.
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Butch Brandau Edgar W. "Butch" Brandau (December 27, 1899 – March 19, 1987), sometimes erroneously listed as Arthur Frank Brandau, was an American football player who played one season in the National Football League with the Detroit Tigers. He appeared in four games for the Tigers during the 1921 season. In 1922, he played for the Kenyons, a semi-pro football team in Detroit. In the opening game of the 1922 season, he scored the only touchdown on a 45-yard punt return.
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Henry Rollins Henry Lawrence Garfield (born February 13, 1961), better known by his stage name Henry Rollins, is an American musician, actor, writer, television and radio host, and comedian. He hosts a weekly radio show on KCRW, and is a regular columnist for "LA Weekly" and "Rolling Stone Australia".
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Absolute Strangers Absolute Strangers is a 1991 made-for-television CBS docudrama featuring "Happy Days" star Henry Winkler returning to his first major TV role in eight years.
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Night Shift (film) Night Shift is a 1982 American comedy film, directed by Ron Howard, concerning a timid night shift morgue employee whose life is turned upside down by a free-spirited entrepreneur. It stars Howard's "Happy Days" co-star Henry Winkler along with Michael Keaton, in his first starring role, and Shelley Long. Also appearing are Richard Belzer and Clint Howard. A young Kevin Costner has a brief scene as "Frat Boy #1", Shannen Doherty appears as a Bluebell scout, Vincent Schiavelli plays a man who delivers a sandwich to Winkler's character, and Charles Fleischer has a brief role as one of the jail prisoners.
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Shifty Henry John Willie "Shifty" Henry (4 October 1921 – 30 November 1958) was an American musician, most noted as a double bass and bass guitar player, and blues songwriter. He also played flute, violin, viola, saxophone, and oboe and was in demand as a session musician and arranger in Los Angeles in the 1940s and 1950s. He was also active in Los Angeles' live jazz scene on Central Avenue.
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Tom Aldredge Thomas Ernest Aldredge (February 28, 1928 – July 22, 2011) was an American television, film and stage actor, best known for various appearances in movies, theatre and television, with a notable role as Hugh De Angelis on "The Sopranos". He also appeared in the television shows "Damages" as Uncle Pete and "Ryan's Hope". He won a Daytime Emmy Award for playing the role of Shakespeare in "Henry Winkler Meets William Shakespeare" (1978). His last role was on the HBO series "Boardwalk Empire", playing the father of Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi).
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Margo Winkler Margo Winkler (born c. 1935) is an American actress, who often played minor roles as receptionists, clerks or judges. She is known for her minor roles in several of Martin Scorsese's films which her husband Irwin Winkler produced. She is best known for her roles in "Goodfellas" (1990) as Belle Kessler and as the receptionist in "The King of Comedy" (1983) whom Robert De Niro's character approaches on numerous occasions. She is also known for her role as Barbara in "Life as a House" (2001). She made her screen debut in 1970 in Stuart Hagmann's "The Strawberry Statement". In 1999 she appeared in her son Charles Winkler's picture "Rocky Marciano", and her last appearance was in 2006 in her husband Irwin Winkler's "Home of the Brave" as a waiting room mother.
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Tommy Baldwin Jr. Thomas "Tommy" Baldwin Jr. (born October 27, 1966) is the team majority owner of Tommy Baldwin Racing and Competition Director of Premium Motorsports, the latter for whom he also serves as crew chief of the No. 15 car in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. His father, Tom Baldwin, was a former champion NASCAR modified driver. Baldwin himself briefly pursued a racing career before becoming a mechanic.
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The House That Drips Blood on Alex The House That Drips Blood on Alex is a 2010 comedy horror short starring Tommy Wiseau. The film was written by sketch comedy group Studio8. It first aired October 14, 2010 on Comedy Central and was released online at atom.com. It was also included as an extra on the DVD compilation of "The Tommy Wi-Show", a web series also created by Studio8 and starring Wiseau.