The Man From UNCLE # 20 Guest Star: Pat Harrington Jr

- February 18, 2018

Daniel Patrick Harrington Jr. (August 13, 1929 – January 6, 2016) 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. In the 1964–1965 television season, he guest-starred on numerous programs, including ABC's sitcom The Bing Crosby Show and NBC's Kentucky Jones (starring Dennis Weaver). In a 1965 episode of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.("The Bow-Wow Affair"), Harrington reprised his role as "Guido Panzini" (who he also played in the February 8, 1966 episode of McHale's Navy and in the May 2, 1983 episode of One Day at a Time). That same year he appeared in an episode of Mr. Novak, starring James Franciscus. He also guest-starred on two episodes of The Munsters.

Harrington married Marjorie Ann Gortner in 1955; the couple had four children. They divorced in 1985. He married Sally Cleaver, an insurance executive, in 2001. Harrington, who had Alzheimer's disease, fell in early November 2015. He suffered a small brain hemorrhage and spent three weeks in a hospital and nursing home. He died on January 6, 2016, aged 86, and was survived by his second wife and his four children.