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NEW YORK — Pat Harrington, Jr., an actor and comedian who in the 1950s got attention as a member of Steve Allen’s fabled TV comic troupe but secured lasting fame decades later as Dwayne Schneider, the cocky handyman on the long-running sitcom “One Day at a Time,” has died.
Harrington died Wednesday at age 86 in Los Angeles of complications from Alzheimer’s disease.
“One Day at a Time” starred Bonnie Franklin as a divorced mother of two teenage daughters (played by Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips) who begins life anew as a single woman.
