Night Shift
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- discussed in biography
- In Ron Howard
…series of comedies that included Night Shift (1982), which centered on two morgue employees (played by Henry Winkler and Michael Keaton) who turn their workplace into an escort service; Splash (1984), an unconventional romance between a man (played by Tom Hanks) and a mermaid (Daryl Hannah); and Parenthood (1989). In…
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- Keaton
- In Michael Keaton: Comedy hits: Night Shift, Mr. Mom, and Beetlejuice
…Henry Winkler in the comedy Night Shift (1982), in which Keaton portrayed a fast-talking dreamer who fashioned a variety of get-rich-quick schemes while working in a morgue.
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- Winkler
- In Henry Winkler: Typecasting and shift to directing and producing
…role in the dark comedy Night Shift (1982). After Happy Days was cancelled in 1984, Winkler found that he had been typecast as Fonzie and could not land roles. “I never resented the Fonz. He put a roof over my head,” Winkler told AARP in 2023. “But after Happy Days,…
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