Not that I remember. There was an episode where the family is at a restaurant, and Archie and Mike are giving their different recollections of the evening (which we see in flashbacks). Archie came home from work, found out the refrigerator was broken, and had the repairman in to fix it. Ron Glass was the repairman’s assistant, briliantly playing the role to match their respective stereotypes. Great episode.
He played an ex-con friend of Lamont’s on Sanford & Son, another Norman Lear show. It was during one of the “Grady in Charge” episodes. While he’s there Grady has “Two big ones” riding on a fight but the TV dies, so Glass’s character goes to an appliance store and brings him a transistor radio which Grady assumes he stole. I loved Grady’s line (which I’m paraphrasing):
‘ARE YOU CRAZY! You went to the appliance store and stole a transistor radio! When they had color televisions settin’ right there in the window!’
(It turns out of course that he bought it.)
Glass also played a blind con-artist encyclopedia salesman on yet another NL show, Good Times, and was on Sanford & Son as a card shark named Hucklebuck in yet another appearance. He got around in the early 70s.
“True, but I THREW that medal right back in their faces!”
Mickey Rooney was correct for AITF. The other famous actor was Jackie Gleason (for whom the role was actually written). I think it could have worked with Gleason but Rooney… no way.
Penny Marshall was once married to Rob Reiner so I’ll have to go with that as the answer.
Yes, that’s it. Archie saw him as bellgerant and threatening, while Mike saw him as something of an Uncle Tom.