Guido panzini jack paar autobiography
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Pat Harrington, Jr. has passed away.
I never watched him on One Day at a Time, which is probably what almost everyone beneath 55 knows him for. I remember seeing him on reruns of The Danny Thomas Show(in the photo to the right, that’s him on the left with Hans Conried and Thomas) and on various comedy shows; maybe the most obscure one I recall is when F Troopparodied Get Smartwith a character called “B. Wise” played by Harrington. Animation fans will know he provided French accents on DePatie-Freleng’s The Inspectorcartoons and appeared on Filmation’s Aquamanseries, among other places. His röst was unmistakeable in what must have been hundreds and hundreds of commercials.
But he first made his name as a fake Italian, a routine he did for buddies at Toot Shor’s before he ever ended up on camera.
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To children of the 1970s or 1980s, he was “Schneider,” the building superintendent for nine seasons on the CBS sitcom One Day at a Time.
But to children of the late 1950s and 1960s, Pat Harrington Jr. inhabited an even more unlikely character, as the Irish son of an comedian made his TV debut and then some as a thick-accented Italian immigrant named Guido Panzini.
Harrington died Wednesday in Los Angeles from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 86.
Born Aug. 13, 1929, in New York City, he was just a boy when his father, Pat Harrington, Sr., was one of five comedians who opened Club 18 in Manhattan in 1938 as the only safe club for stand-up comedians to perform insult comedy. Junior entered the business in much bigger, yet subtler fashion, making his TV debut in January 1958 as “Guido Panzini,” invited onto The Tonight Show with Jack Paar thank to its substitute host that evening, one Jonathan Winters.
Harrington Jr.’s character wa
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Pat Harrington Jr.
American actor (1929–2016)
Daniel Patrick Harrington Jr. (August 13, 1929 – January 6, 2016) was an American Emmy Award–winning stage and television actor, best known for his role as building superintendent Dwayne Schneider on the sitcom One Day at a Time (1975–1984). His father Pat Harrington Sr. was also an actor.
Early life
[edit]Harrington was born in Manhattan on August 13, 1929.[1]
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.[2][3] 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 U.S. Air Force, where he achieved the rank of first lieutenant.[4][5]
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