Pat Harrington Jr.
| Pat Harrington Jr. | |
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Harrington as host of Stump the Stars, 1962
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| Born |
Daniel Patrick Harrington Jr. August 13, 1929 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Died | January 6, 2016 (aged 86) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Alzheimer's disease |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1953–2016 |
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| Children | 4 |
Daniel Patrick Harrington Jr. (August 13, 1929 – January 6, 2016), known as Pat Harrington Jr. or simply Pat Harrington, was an American voice, stage, and television actor, best known for his role as building superintendent "Schneider" on the CBS sitcom One Day at a Time. His father, Pat Harrington Sr., was also an actor.
Harrington was born in the New York City borough of Manhattan on August 13, 1929.
His father was a song and dance man who worked in vaudeville and performed on the Broadway stage. Harrington attended a Catholic military school, La Salle Military Academy in Oakdale, New York. then graduated from Fordham University in 1950 with a Bachelor of Arts and subsequently received a master's degree in political philosophy, also from Fordham. During the Korean War, Harrington served as an intelligence officer with the United States Air Force, where he achieved the rank of first lieutenant.
Following in his father's footsteps, he pursued a career in entertainment after graduating from college and completing military service. He took a job at NBC in New York City. He then began acting on stage and toured North America with a number of plays, eventually performing on Broadway.
Harrington became famous in the 1950s as a member of Steve Allen's television comedy troupe, the "Men on the Street" (which also included Don Knotts, Tom Poston and Louis Nye). He made many appearances as the comedic Italian immigrant "Guido Panzini" on The Jack Paar Show in the mid-1950s. In the 1959-1960 season, he played the recurring role of Pat Hannigan in eleven episodes of Danny Thomas's CBS-TV sitcom, The Danny Thomas Show. Hannigan is the pending son-in-law of Thomas' character of Danny Williams; he is engaged to older daughter Terry Williams, played by Penny Parker after Sherry Jackson, who originally filled the role, vacated the series in 1958. Just a few weeks before Harrington's passing, Marjorie Lord, another alumnus of The Danny Thomas Show who played Thomas' second wife in the series, died on November 28, 2015.
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