Henry Winkler wasn't 'acknowledged as a human being' by his parents: 'I embarrassed them...'
Henry Winkler wasn't "acknowledged as a human being" by his parents. The 78-year-old actor is the son of late German Jews Harry and Ilse Winkler - who fled Berlin at the start of World War II in 1939 to start a business in the United States - and even though he "understands" that they had been through a difficult time, claimed that they paid little attention to him and only saw him as a chance to boost their status. Speaking on the 'How to Fail' podcast, he told host Elizabeth Day: "I had a sense of how to be in the house, how to be out of the house just in order to flourish as a human being. ...