Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Loss of Two Favorite Actors: Trapper John and Schneider

WAYNE ROGERS, 82.  Played Trapper John on MASH for just three years.  I was surprised at how short this was.  I always thought he was on the show for a lot longer.  Died December 31, 2015.

PAT HARRINGTON, JR., 86.  Best known for his role as handyman and building superintendent Dwayne F. Schneider on the TV sitcom "One Day at a Time."  Died Jan. 6,2016.

This series starred Bonnie Franklin as a divorced mother raising two teenage girls.  Schneider was a self-styled ladies man with a trim mustache and an ever present tool belt with a gut pressed up against his white tee shirt.  He got the paunch by drink mass quantities of water before each filming.

The series lasted from 1975 to 1984.

Two of my favorite-ever shows.

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