Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scarpelli also noted that Lear allowed the actors to “play a really big part in the development” of his TV series. “We would sit ...

In 1980, Glenn Scarpelli made his debut as Alex Handris on One Day at a Time. The actor was just 14 years old when he joined the cast of the CBS sitcom alongside veteran stars Bonnie Franklin, Valerie ...