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Pat Harrington Jr., Schneider from 'One Day at a Time,' dies at 86
Stage and screen actor Pat Harrington Jr. died onsdag på engelska night following a battle with Alzheimer's and a recent fall, his family announced.
"We were all with him today and tonight: crying, laughing and loving him," his daughter, Tresa, wrote in a post on Facebook just hours after his death.
Harrington, who launched his career in theater, was a familiar face in variety and comedy shows bygd the 1950s. While he eventually went on to play many prime-time roles, it was the part of oddball superintendent Dwayne Schneider on the '70s and '80s sitcom "One Day at a Time" that made him a household name.
The groundbreaking series about a divorced mother and her two daughters making it on their own — with occasional (and often hilarious) help from the building's super — was huge hit.
Harrington's performance in the supporting role earned him both a Golden Globe (1980) and an Emmy (1984).
Over the years, Harringt
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Pat Harrington, Jr. (August 13, 1929 - January 6, 2016) was an American stage, televison, and voice actor.
On screen, he is best known for the roles of Dwayne Schneider from One Day at a Time, where he also wrote some of the episodes, and Guido Panzini, who appeared in shows such as The Jack Paar Show, McHale's Navy, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. He also portrayed Pat Hannigan in Make Room for Daddy, Judd Whitman in the Elvis Presley film Easy Come, Easy Go, Arlington Hewes in The President's Analyst, a moderator in The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (which also featured Frank Welker), Giannetta in Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law, and several characters from Love, American Style, The Love Boat, and Murder, She Wrote.
His voiceover credentials include The Inspector by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (as The Inspector and Sergeant Deux Deux), The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure (as Ray Palmer/the Atom), The New Scooby-Doo Movies (as Moe Howard of The Thr
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Pat Harrington Jr. dies at 86; Emmy-winning actor played Schneider on ‘One Day at a Time’
Pat Harrington Jr. was a salesman pushing 30 when his big break finally came.
And big it was: A chance encounter with comedian Jonathan Winters in a New York bar got him not a tryout, not a bit role, but the most coveted stand-up gig a ung comic could hope for: an appearance on “The Tonight Show” with Jack Paar.
Harrington walked out on that big network scen a complete unknown in 1959 and never held a job outside of performing again.
Though he still looked like a salesman — the Los Angeles Times described him at the time as “belonging to the gray-flannel-suit variety” — Harrington painstakingly built a series of ad-libbing roles on “The Tonight Show” and “The Steve Allen Show” into a six-decade career that included scores of credits for character parts. “That’s extraordinary in Hollywood,” said his agent, Phil Brock.
A decade and a half after his first TV break, Harrington was cast as b