The idea that would eventually become Happy Days actually started off as an installment on a completely different sitcom.

Ron Howard revealed in a career-spanning Vulture interview that he was ready to walk away from “Happy Days” if the team behind the beloved ABC sitcom changed its title to “Fonzie’s Happy Days.” Howard ...

McCartney's perspective on talking about the Beatles resonated with Howard's experience of his pre-directing fame ...

Ron Howard threatened to quit his hit Happy Days over plans to change the title. The actor-turned-moviemaker played Richie Cunningham in the hit TV show with Henry Winkler as best friend Arthur ...

Henry Winkler was beside himself when Ron Howard left their beloved sitcom “Happy Days.” The “Arrested Development” alum, 79, and director, 71, starred on “Happy Days” together from 1974 to 1980.

By the time The Andy Griffith Show had wrapped in 1968, Ron Howard was already a seasoned actor-though he was still just a teenager-which would actually come in handy for his next most popular role, ...

He threatened to break his contract. “I never, ever challenged what they were doing creatively,” Howard said in the August 2025 interview. “It made perfect sense that you’d build this Fonzie character ...

In a recent interview with Vulture, Ron Howard admitted to the one change on Happy Days that his "ego" would not allow for. "I never, ever challenged what they were doing creatively. It made perfect ...

While most know George Lucas as the man behind the Star Wars franchise, his breakthrough film, American Graffiti, predates his epic space opera by four years. The film is a love letter to being young, ...