Tony Ganios, star of the intercourse comedy “Porky’s” and quite a few different cult traditional movies, has reportedly died. He was 64.
TMZ broke the information Tuesday after an X account from somebody claiming to be Ganios’ longtime fiancée, Amanda Serrano-Ganios, shared information of his passing.
“The final phrases we mentioned to one another have been ‘I like you,’” she wrote. “Love is an understatement. You might be every thing to me. My coronary heart, my soul and my finest buddy. #I like you #tonyganios.”
“I like you a lot, my love. I’m damaged,” Serrano-Ganios added in another tweet accompanied by a photograph of the couple presumably holding palms.
The Submit has contacted a rep for Ganios for remark.
Serrano-Ganios additionally replied to a number of different X customers who expressed their condolences, together with a person named Marc, who claimed he was going to satisfy Ganios in particular person for the primary time in two weeks.
“Thanks, Marc,” she replied. “It’s simply unreal to me proper now. It was so quick. He hadn’t felt nicely and hid it from me for days. When he lastly advised me, and was taken to the hospital, his spinal wire was severely contaminated. They did surgical procedure, subsequent morning, his coronary heart stopped. I’m crushed.”
Ganios starred as Perry in “The Wanderers” in 1979.
He additionally portrayed the fan-favorite Anthony “Meat” Tuperello within the Nineteen Eighties “Porky’s” intercourse comedy franchise. Spawning two sequels, the flick was a few group of highschool boys seeking to lose their virginity in Fifties-era Florida.
Ganios performed a killer in 1990’s “Die Arduous 2,” the place his character was stabbed within the eye with an icicle by Bruce Willis’ character, John McClane.
His different film credit embrace “The Wanderers,” “Again Roads,” “Continental Divide,” “Physique Rock,” “The Taking of Beverly Hills” and “Rising Solar.”